Orlan is a "Carnal artist", she uses her body as a canvas. She has undergone multiple surgeries to create herself into the exact opposite of the societal stereotype of beautiful. Orlan is the first to use plastic surgery as a medium.
Orlan's surgeries have partially been projections of ancient goddess' and well known 'beauties'. Her mouth was from Francois Boucher's Europa; a mock up of the Mona Lisa is her forehead, which she had two cheek implants in place of a forehead implant; Orlan's chin is from Botticelli's Venus; and so on.
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