WEEK 3

For this week, I continue to develop and experiment with a lot of ways to use graphic design to present a new way of seeing Erotic images.

Here’s the final outcome

It’s a publication that let’s u explore and interact with different ways of seeing.

Like Sarah Lucas did with Au Natural, I want to break the male gaze and introduce new ways of seeing with the use of everyday objects, and the interactive experience is a way for my work to be accessible and easily related to someone, giving a sense of individual’s experience of the person and that object.

With these different techniques, each one gives out their own experience of seeing.

• Folding into collage
• Peephole
• Images generated by Google when searching the keyword
• Mix & match images from your own imagination
• Cards that can build into a 3D model giving a sense of depth when viewing the image
• The image that captures the mixed media between 2D erotic image and 3D object
• Little flipbook
• Draw your own imagination; inviting the audience to create their own picture

The image of the objects is taken by me from the things I encountered in my daily life. The criteria for capturing are they have to be either visually or conceptually related to body parts.

Overall, I want to present it with a quirky and suggestive tone of voice, like Sarah Lucas did with her work to break the usual norm.

Feedback

What’s working?

• The engagement element is brought into the work as it allows the reader to understand the content in different ways. It makes you think about the work you presented more consciously, as you can play and experiment with it.
• Great to see your own photographs being used throughout. 
• There’s a clear development from last week and an advancement in how your enquiry. 
• The idea of allowing people with a metaphor is really interesting. 
• We can see all your experimentation, and it shows that what we consider erotic is constructed and depends on context. 
• You deal with photography in different ways. How you use composition and interaction to analyse the erotic image.

What’s not working?

• You could experiment with other papers. Perhaps using glossy paper in reference to old pornography magazines? Mimic the material of pornographic magazines? The current paper might suggest something else, newsprint is often seen as disposable.

What could be improved in the future?

• Perhaps adding context? Although the images and interaction are quite strong on their own. 
• Maybe use some references to erotic symbolism, or expand on the context?
• Using cropping as a method throughout could also be applied to bring additional context in.  
• Foto Museum Winterthur (Interesting reference on photographers who deal with the body in an interesting way)
• Foam Magazine / British Journal of Photography