Green is the New Black!
Vote John Wang! PosterCollective
Green is the New Black!
Vote John Wang! PosterCollective
My Batman mask isn’t just any old Batman mask; it’s glitter bomb Batman mask. Sparkles, eyelashes, and hats aren’t things you think of when you think about Batman. These features give my mask a funny and feminine twist. My appropriation of the Batman mask is a sort of Batman alter ego, and it got me thinking about my own alter ego because like Batman I’m more series than outgoing. Going out to take a photo I wanted my mask to blend in with it’s surroundings like Batman does in the dark city of Gotham, which is why the background is just as colourful as the mask itself.
Venus of Willindorf, a women with a fixed path molded for her is not me. I’ve got my legs, and I’m not following a specific mold. My path isn’t set, and I’ve got only some sort of direction I know I want to go towards, which is why the drawing in the triptic only shows a partly sculpted women, who mostly looks like a lump of clay, or a potato, which may have to be changed. My appropriated venus of willendorf represents the typical women through the passage of time. She remains the image of a fertile women, but also happens to wear an apron, like a typical housewife, but unlike the typical housewife she is wearing a pink wig. Before the critic, I looked at the wig as a representation on how a women must always try and look good, but know I look at the wig as a mass produced item. A mass produced item, the wig, could represent the idea of mass produced women, who fit the mold. Another comment I liked from the critique was the comparison of my venus of willendorf to Nicki Minaj, which I found hilarious. It makes sense to me because like Nicki, Venus is curvy, and is also sending off a sexual message. The stencil typography I chose goes along with what I’m saying in the sense that a stencil drawing is a lot like a mold, but what may have been an issue with this stencil typography is the sense that this message came from a male military authority, which contradicts what I’m trying to say.