△1 – WEEK 1

As I was experimenting with using everyday objects to construct erotic images at the end of the last term, I noticed that this approach falls under the term “suggestive communication”, which involves implying or hinting at something without explicitly stating it. This kind of communication is often used when discussing topics that are considered taboo or might be embarrassing to address directly.

This realisation prompted me to reform my inquiry. Instead of solely concentrating on creating erotic images, I began to explore the construction of suggestive communication and interested in the use of it to create a tool to discuss topics related to “sex”.

For this week’s experiment, I used some of Gestalt principles as a tool to construct or communicate the male sexual organ, as well as cataloguing some other symbols that are used to represent the same topic.

By using these suggestive images to present explicit content in an implicit way prompted me to question whether

• How explicit does it have to be for something to be considered sexual content / taboo / erotic
• Can this suggestive communication be used as a tool to discuss sexual topics?
• How does the suggestive communication construct? / Deconstruct the suggestive communication
• If I zoom in or zoom out this suggestive image (eg. a banana) would it still be / see a suggestive?

FEEDBACK

• Try and explore another sexual organ, maybe a female sexual organ? and then compare it to this one
• Put this image into a different medium eg. an art magazine?
• Play around with people’s reaction
• Play around with other senses eg. sound