discovered this artist, Miriam Lenk, online and have been able to find out that she is a German artist based in Berlin who creates realistic, exaggerated, and hybrid forms of the overweight female body. I don’t even know for sure that the artist is a woman, but am assuming so based on the name Miriam. I’ve looked everywhere to find more information about her but even her official website has little to offer other than a gallery of her work. So, looking at her work it appears that she works largely with epoxy resin and bronze. Based on the way her statues are positioned the obese female form seems to be glorified. It looks like she meant it to be enjoyed and appreciated rather than ridiculed and criticized by society. Several of her pieces are believable in proportion but others are obviously exaggerated.