12 3 / 2011
That awful time approaches again- this week i have to present my work. Great. After a very dramatic and lenghty mental meltdown, i have come to the conclusion that hiding away will not get me anywhere. So alas, with my broken finger i shall struggle through and try to produce something half decent for friday.
Maybe a slight change in direction will help refocus me. Looking back to the starting point and reminding myself what i am actually trying to say. And so with purchasing a few copies of nuts magazine, i am trying to remember why looking at half naked women interested me so much in the first place (and it’s not because i’m a pervert). I am not a crazy feminist and if i was, oh my, how i would be contradicting myself. My first love is make up, second cheerleading and my boyfriend fits in there somewhere too (!). But i don’t think that means i can’t have an opinion and question if it’s okay for girls to strip off for the sake of male satisfaction. Most the girls in these magazines are my age or even younger and honestly, if i did their job, i know a good few people who would want nothing to do with me. However, these girls don’t do it for free- some of them make hundreds just from one shoot. So is it degrading or empowering? Who knows? And does anyone still care?
I was getting to the point where i was ready to jump ship with this project when i came across the artist Fumie Sasabunchi. She edits magazine images and turns the models into creepy, dark creatures like something from a horror film. I think they are just fantastic. Her work has reinspired me, so i want to edit over images in the same way she does, mess around for with them and see what i come up with. The bits i’ve done so far are pretty lame but hopefully by the end of the week i’ll come up with something. I think it is just about mass producing these images until i find something i think could work as a piece, then take it from there.
What shit timing to break my finger.
