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On each episode we explore what true beauty is, what it is not, and how we go about finding beauty in a broken world.
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This blog is about authentic beauty: the life of God being played out all around us and even within us. So, join me. I know there's so much in store for us.
Soul-Deep Beauty: Fighting for Our True Worth in a World Demanding Flawless is now available.
are you tired of being sold a broken brand of beauty?
Let’s redefine beauty.
My name is Melissa L. Johnson and I want to help women find authentic beauty. The kind of beauty their heart and soul long for.
Beauty can be hard to define. As women we are expected to be beautiful, which usually means physically perfect. Aesthetically flawless. It seems we can never be enough or do enough. And, sometimes, in a world filled with brokenness and suffering, it feels like true beauty is hard to come by.
At times, beauty seems impossible.
But what if true beauty exists and it’s more brilliant than we ever imagined?
we are being sold a broken brand of beauty
American beauty ideals promote shame and brokenness among females of all ages. These women’s stories demonstrate exactly why we need to redefine beauty.
Gretchen Andrew left Silicon Valley for the art world and now refers to herself as a “Search Engine Artist.” Gretchen uses her experience as a former computer scientist at Google and her artist training in London with Billy Childish to “hack systems of power with art, code, and glitter,” as she states it, and helps make invisible parts of technology visible.
In our time, we discuss her latest limited series, entitled Facetune Portraits: Universal Beauty, currently featured at The Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan. Gretchen helps us see how AI is shaping beauty standards, the pressures those standards create, and the resulting invisible scars of these developing technologies.