The day before the first date of my assessment, I came up with an idea that I wanted to rushedly explore before the hand-in. I’d been skirting around the idea, but it hadn’t quite crystallised until that point. The entire process in this project had very much reminded me of the restriction of living in [...]
Eventually, not being able to express myself through art took it’s toll, and I started drawing again. I think these reflect the sort of state I was in at the time – I’d lost my confidence in actually trying to create work that was explicit, that could convey anything to the person viewing it. In [...]
If individuals wish to be 100% safe, then they need to err on the side of caution. There are many books people it would be safer to mutilate – or destroy altogether.
Posted by: sj7g09 on: December 9, 2009
One of the things discussed in my tutorial was in regard to the self-shot portrait, and whether it can be considered sexual, and why. The view expressed by the member of staff was that it was sexual, because she was naked, she was wearing the long socks, the way her legs were crossed one over [...]
Posted by: sj7g09 on: December 7, 2009
I wanted to expand on the idea of creating images that were sexual and ‘childish’, looking at the view of ‘childhood’ as being socially constructed, and something that is interpreted through visual cues. Therefore, in these images, I was posing naked, except for knee-high socks and school tie. I drew influences from the amateur self-portrait [...]
Posted by: sj7g09 on: December 5, 2009
I started trying to experiment with the censorship of my images by using Photoshop filters (pixelate – mosaic). The image above is my first attempt at this, which I don’t think is obvious enough as I used a relatively small pixel number, so I don’t think it conveys it all that well. I think it [...]
Posted by: sj7g09 on: December 5, 2009
I decided that I wanted to create something that conformed to the aesthetics of self-shot images that may be interpreted as pornography, hence using a webcam to capture the images. I wanted these images to use nudity, but nothing sexually explicit, because I wanted to explore the idea of what constitutes pornography – even if [...]
Posted by: sj7g09 on: December 5, 2009
These images are from the Chanel Spring Collection 2010, which I was alerted to by the postings of fashion students. Initially, my interest was that the clothes seem to make the models look younger than they probably are, like they are emulating lolita fashion, but in the mainstream. I’m interested in why it’s big business [...]
Posted by: sj7g09 on: November 30, 2009
image by Helmut Newton I love this image, it’s so fantastically perverse, and it sparked off a lot of thoughts, with at least some of these thoughts on art, film, sociological theory… Anyway, in my opinion, it’s extremely sexualised, and makes comment on gender roles through the woman being an object or an animal. Looking [...]
