| Description |
The subject I have chosen, the naked/nude, is relatable to most people. It brings to the foreground ethical questions that stir public dialog, wanted or not. The naked and the nude figure are unavoidably connected to us by nature, and then confused by the stresses of social, cultural, economic, and political translation. How the image is viewed is directly tied to these man-made filters, no matter how different they might be. My paintings directly speak to the confusion caused by social and cultural views of the naked body. Throughout my research I have attempted to create work that disrupts unified viewpoints of how to think about the naked/ nude image, using visual motifs specific to our time to interrupt an easy view of the naked/nude also presented. This mixture of images is designed to confuse, to inspire critical judgments that people must arrive at based on their own beliefs and history. The provocative hope of my work is that these critical judgments will help people experience awareness of these beliefs and histories while they experience the images. This should be an opportunity to explore the idea of what the images of the body unclothed mean and how they relate to each individual's cultural identity. |
