Finding a Direction

After my first critique, I came out with more questions than answers. I know I want my topic to be about plastic surgery and its role in society today. I want to show the phenomenon going on amongst young women turning to plastic surgery when they aren't confident in their own skin. I was asked if I am going to show this in a positive or negative light, but I didn't plan on showing it in a bad or good light. I just want to bring it TO light for people to see and understand. I want to leave the viewer wondering when this started and if it is getting out of control. I want them to recognize how society and the media are the reasons for young women to want to altar their body into what is beautiful by media standards.

It was suggested for me to look at the artist Orlan who had an exhibition called "Resurfacing"showing photographs of women looking as if they were just out of surgery, or just about to go in. Ironically, this show is similar to what I want to do but rendered in a different way obviously. Orlan shows faces of older women but I want photographs of the faces, arms, legs, butt etc. of young women who don't need surgery and I was going to draw surgical lines myself. I'm definitely going to look up more on this artist for inspiration and ideas on how to make my thesis similar, but make sure it's my own original.