Work of art made of 400 vulvas - empowering?

[AnnieLobeseder]

A friend linked on Facebook. Apparently she's in it! I think it's amazing and empowering. But some might feel uncomfortable that it was done by a man and wonder about his motives.

Your thoughts?

It's not even original. I have been to two art foundation courses where some 17 year old did this, only on a smaller scale.

Totally agree with you on this, dittany.

And I found this quote from the artist bizarre: "For many women their genitals are a source of shame rather than pride". Is he serious? He should be in PR; he does a great line in bullshit.

eew, just eew.
not clever. not empowering. (to me anyway)

if you look on his website you'll see that he is advertising for thin women with good tits and arses to model for him

and what does it say about the gallery, that they would show this?

He should answer his own ad. He already qualifies nicely for the description "tit" and "arse".

OK, I retract my previous view, he's nasty. I'm surprised my friend is involved with him, she's lovely and he sounds vile!

piprabbit's point about the vulvas being displayed like a collection also struck a chord with me.

So no, not empowering after all. Sorry.

and and and...

read the weird third person/ fake interview biog on his website:

Jamie is an artist who is hard to define. ?I blame my degree in Experimental Studio Art,? he explains, ?I?m still experimenting?. He admits to being a sculptor but shuns any closer definition. ?I make things,? he says prosaically. This mock humility belies a strong and, some would say eccentric, character with a definite je ne sais quoi. Jamie is a maverick, a polymath, and a self-confessed enfant terrible. What he makes is causing quite a stir.

Bleurrgh

He's already done the penis thing: " On the other hand he is also happy to indulge in pure whimsy as in Attention, a large representation of the American flag made from hundreds of casts of his penis."

www.saatchionline.com/Mastercaster

Funny how he didn't advertise for other men to present their erect cocks for his loving attentions.

Yes, bumholes

"For many men, their bumholes are a source of shame rather than pride"

Lets empowering the menz!

that smiley should have been a . you can just see how ridiculous the whole premise is when you apply it to men. Men have already got loooooads of real power so they don't need to be empowered through their genitals

Yes - "many men are ashamed of their ever-growing, tufty earholes". Let's have a massive display of different ear shapes, that'll help everyone won't it.

Oh no, it would look like an educational resource for medical students or something.

Isn't it the patriarchy's dystopian nightmare: for a man to learn that a bunch of women are snurking at him. That or being ignored.

I saw a film called 'Dick' when I was at university. It's just thousands of dicks in all states (I mean hard/not hard, rather than anything else) with women talking about dicks as a voiceover - some talking about funny things, some about sex, one about being raped iirc :( a very interesting film. So it's been done. Mr Brighton sounds both derivative and a right prick.

Someone should tell him to stop fannying about.