I work with a number of themes and if you have any questions about any of the work then message me.
Photo with 1 note
Using gossip magazines to talk about things personal to me, playing on the contrast between the two.
Using gossip magazine hook lines to talk about things personal to me, playing on the contrasts.
Photo reblogged from Uni Work with 1 note
I wanted this piece to play on all of the elements within this genre of women’s magazines to do with sex, relationships and love, and show there darker side. I wanted to make this piece overwhelming, presenting the viewer with lots of the elements from one magazine at once to emphasise how much of this content is actually in the magazines and therefore how important it is seen to be by the producers of the magazine within the target audiences lives. I also within this piece wanted to use the adverts within the magazine as a tool, specifically the ones aimed at helping the reader. I took adverts for cosmetic surgery, psychics and chat lines and tried to incorporate them into the piece. I wanted to show the links between content and the adverts. I wanted to point out the fact that these adverts and articles are not really aimed at helping the viewer but more at selling an ideal that the viewer will want to aspire too. This ideal comes at the price of change. I wanted to show the way that these types of storeys play on the reader’s insecurities and problems to later help sell the solution of becoming this projected ideal. The ideal that is pushed is not of a woman without flaws, but a woman who had flaws and has chosen to change and is better because of it. This isn’t bad on its own or as a thought but the changes that the magazine adverts push later on in the advert sections show the real price of the projected ideal. I.e. because the woman in the advert has had cosmetic surgery or spoken to a psychic on a regular basis she is cured of being her old self and becomes this ideal. The content of the magazines reinforces and implants this idea of an ideal women whilst suggesting solutions that are more beneficial to private companies rather then the actual reader.
Photo reblogged from Uni Work with 1 note
“This look matters more then I do.
I have thoughts and feelings but the only quality that matters in me is this look
Without it I would be nothing
With it
I am beauty,
I am desire,
I am
Perfect.
And I am empty
Envy me,
Desire me,
Love me?
With this look I become
The object of beauty
The object of desire
The object of perfection
I become the object.
Do you
Envy me still?
Desire me still?
I am still.
I am the object.”
Page 1 of 18
