‘Tis the season for transformational decision making aka New Year’s resolutions. We’ve all made our lists of who we’d like to be by the end of 2014– physically, mentally, emotionally.  We start off the year with such hopes and expectations for ourselves.  We make concrete goals but have we given consideration to changes in thinking and perception?  What if instead, we concentrated on how we see ourselves?  In her Models as Surfaces series, photographer Isabelle Wenzel  challenges our perceptions by treating the human body as sculpture.

We most likely think of ourselves in labels that have been put upon us by others– she’s the pretty one, he’s the funny one, etc.  But we are so much more than who we are pigeonholed to be.  We have the power to transform ourselves, just as Wenzel’s models transform their bodies into headless, sculptural shapes.

So maybe our resolutions shouldn’t be so much goal oriented as perception oriented.  Instead of a resolution to create a painting a week, how about a goal of changing your perception of how you see yourself as an artist?  Or instead of the highly popular diet resolution, change the way you view food and how your think about your own body.  We can change our minds first and the rest will follow.  I’m resolving to give it a shot!  Who’s with me?

If you’d like to see more of Isabelle Wenzel‘s work, please visit her website.

All images via the artist’s website.  Artist found via Design For Mankind.