"Megan Bynum examines how women are often affected by the constructs of society in Torso Apparatus I. The photograph visibly shows the marks left by the device, while the metal corset-like device that made the marks sits on a pedestal. Society constantly criticizes women about their bodies and often impress these standards onto them."

Watch this brief video to hear me talk about my Regimes series and the conceptual and formal considerations. I was motivated to make the assemblage torture devices that challenge perceptions regarding the commercialized beauty industry and its impacts on women. 

"'Words of Art' epitomizes the idea of interdisciplinarity by expanding the accepted disciplines and by being facilitated by student organizations Subplots and Art Alliance. The goal was to increase flexibility and increase the number of disciplines involved in the event, according to Megan Bynum, event organizer."

"The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and the SFA Department of English and Creative Writing recently presented the exhibition “Re-Visions” as part of the Words of Art student organization-led collaborative event that offered contributors with publication and exhibition opportunities."