It has been said that the world once belonged to men and that that has now changed in this era. Male achievement was always recognized while occupations performed by women were regarded as less important.
Cultural differences between the eras of the 50’s & 60’s and now are enormous. The era of a view of women as passive sexual objects; as devoted mothers, and as dutiful wives. A world of subordinate standing.
Now, women are social actors. Women are now recognized as equal to, or even more powerful than men. Woman now (from what we can gather in advertising/the media (a reflection of the society?) is that she has to be gazed at. The woman now is slender & sophisticated and self confident in her obvious social prestige. I am wondering if this change is a good thing. ‘Everything women’ now is sexual suggestive and not really that “innocent”
This work is a sort of an ironic play portraying the earlier era of innocence and what society has come to now. I really wanted the female subject to be a bit more erotic/pornographic to make this point more shocking. But, on the contrary, I have left the female subject in this work completely “innocent” I guess I am playing along.
I am not sure if my writing above is clear and translates my opinion well. Just as the visual art, you can perceive it in your own way, which would ultimately be - perceiving yourself.
Pictures of progress following soon.The work is a collage of advertising of the 50's and 60's represented as the skin of the woman depicted.
