PLUS MODEL MAGAZINE December 2015 Holiday issue | Page 144

in
her
words

an open letter from
Artist Rakel M. Sivertsen
Twitter @MiRakelRom
Facebook facebook.com/mirakelrom

I’d just like to thank you. I don’t care particularly for fashion, in fact
probably far less than most. What I do care about though is how I see
the body.
I’m an artist. I draw people. I’ve had a weird eye for bone structure,
muscular lines and body fat since I was a child. I use to read doctors
posters just to comprehend junctions and veins and how it works,
how the positioning of a body alters body mass, muscles, fat… and I
never learned how beautiful and important it is to have body fat. As an
artist I was trained to focus on the muscles, trained to appreciate the
muscular body.