Artist Jen Davis talks about her Institute for the Humanities exhibition Eleven Years, which represents a series of self-portraits, created over eleven years, chronicling the artist’s relationship to her body and weight, reconsidering ideas of body image, particularly as they related to societal standards of beauty, and how these standards affected her life. The process of making the photographs allowed her to explore these issues by putting herself in front of the camera …as a way to connect, to figure out what and how to communicate, to engage more fully, and move forward.