Heather Smith Stringer, Lee Price

Sleeping with Peaches: An Interview with Painter Lee Price

Lee Price is a figurative painter from New York. She has been painting women and food for over twenty years and continues to address the intersections of food with body image, addiction, and unabating desire. In this interview Price shares her trajectory as a painter, her personal struggles with food, and the ongoing battle of […]

A. David Wall, Caleb Mitchell, Travis Stewart

The Body as Battleground: Eating Disorders, Yo-Yo Diets, and the Survival of the Thinnest

After twenty-five years of counseling over 7,000 women with eating disorders, reflecting on what could lead someone to starve herself to death, or to consume 20,000 calories a day punctuated by self-induced vomiting, we ask ourselves: What has gone wrong in our relationship with our bodies? There are three aspects of modern Western culture that […]