Last summer multimedia artist Christine LoFaso began to canvass people about their attitudes toward their bodies via an informal E-mail to friends and colleagues and a temporary Web site. She asked people what they liked about their bodies and whether their feelings on the subject had changed over time, and received about 100 anonymous answers from people ranging in age from 20 to 70. “I was amazed at their honesty and poignancy,” says LoFaso, who has been exploring this subject in her art for about a decade. Anorexics wrote about “moving to an understanding that the problem has nothing to do with the body.” Others had incurred bodily injury or loss. One woman wrote, “After 60 years I’ve become accustomed to my body. Sometimes in the grocery store I wish I were taller. I have nice legs. I wish I still had both breasts.”
