△1 – WEEK 2

For this week, I continue to develop iterative experiments on suggestive visual communication around sexual organs to compare with the existing publication I made last week and with the hope that it would lead me into interesting questions.

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The first one, I continue to use some of Gestalt principles as a tool to construct or communicate the female sexual organ as well as cataloguing some other symbols, and hand gestures that are used to represent it.

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The second publication I made, developing by the question raised during last week’s experiment, “Can this suggestive communication be used as a tool to discuss sexual topics?”. I tried to put these images back into the medium where they are usually found such as messages (sexting) or porn websites.

During the silent crits, I decided to have all of the three publications I have made presented on the table for feedback, as I thought the first one (that I made last week) could help the readers understand more of the context of what I have been working on.

FEEDBACK

From silent crits and tutorial group

What’s working

• Playing with Gestalt Law adds meaning to the project
• Flipping through different images triggers different responses
• A fresh approach to seeing nudity
• Explorative and experimental approach to the enquiry

What’s not working

• The purpose of making/cataloguing all of these images: where can it be applied?
• In the third publication, lack of representation? seems to be biased on heterosexuality

How could it be improved?

• Show more relationship between text and images
• Explore tactility / the use of other senses e.g. sound, touch and feel
• Form more specific enquiry, maybe the work explores the question of “how to bypass the censorship?” “How can we normally talk / express our sexual desire in public without sounding like a creep?”
• Explore/make my own set of emojis?