Deformation

Hi guys,
I think that deformation is a really interesting topic. How people want to change themselves either because they are unhappy with how they look (plastic surgery) or because they are bored (piercings for example), or because they are unhappy in general (self mutilation.)
Apparently Orlan's goal in getting surgery is to acquire the ideal of beauty as suggested by the men who painted women. Her aim was to have the chin of Boticelli's Venus, the nose of Germone's Psyche, the lips of Francois Boucher's Europa, the eyes of Diana from a sixteenth-century French School of Fontainebleu painting and the forehead of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
She picked these characters, not because of beauty they represent, but because of the stories associated with them; Diana because she is inferior to the gods and men but is a leader to goddesses and women; Mona Lisa because of the standard of beauty, or anti-beauty, she represents; Psyche because of her fragility and vulnerability within the soul; Venus for carnal beauty and Europa for her adventurous outlook to the horizon, the future. Now if you look at the final product of Orlan, do you reckon she has achieved all this???

I looked deformation up in the dictionary and it said that to deform something is to be put out of shape OR spoil the appearance of. So technically the former means that plastic surgery is a form of deformation, not only if it looks bad, because it has just simply been changed.
Another form of deformation is piercings and tattoo's, like this image I found of this man. (It didn't say how many piercings he has on his face/or body, and I didn't really feel like counting.)
I just felt like putting this picture in... enjoy!