Kierstan is an emerging artist located in Seattle, WA. Having moved every few years her ideas of the world around her have shifted many times, but one thing stayed the same - her fascination with the human body. Her main focus is showing adequate representation of women through her high contrasting paintings. Having suffered early on with ED and being diagnosed with BDD she has used her art as a form of therapy for herself, and has used it to enlighten others of their own beauty. Using my own body at first in these paintings was a way to make me feel normal. Continuing these paintings has been a way to show women they are beautiful in vulnerable pose and celebrate them simultaneously. Our bodies are shapes and curves, with indents, and protrusions much like the land around us. Inspired by old topographical maps to plan out my paintings similarly I used women curves as high and low points on the map, creating a guide to their highest most peaks, and inner most valleys. With these paintings I want to show women that their shape should be viewed graciously, much like the earth around us.