PISS SERIES (1-6)

i first came up with the idea for this series of digital images after previously working with the color gradients generated on digital typeface; when you zoom in on an image, even black text on a white background, at a certain point, you discover that the shading effects utilized by most modern websites and programs, are in fact combinations of color gradients which, on the 1x level, appear to merely be digital shadows.

i find porn to be interesting, not sexually but, as an expression of repressed sociological neuroses. pornography is how industrialized, western society works out our mommy/daddy/intimacy issues. childrens' cartoons are full of violence but, full frontal nudity is "adult," even though everyone has a body of some type, shape, form. if you further extrapolate away from heteronormative behaviour, you find less and less examples of intimacy, or even expression; queer arts are very often relegated to queer ghettos. (i would go so far as to argue that you can find better non-heterosexual porn easier than you can find a decent non-heterosexual centered film or book)

... but what lies within pornographic imagery? when an image is exploded into a slurred wash of colors, rather than explicit sexual depiction, does the image lose its objectionability? the image as a whole is still the same; it is only our perception of the image that has changed.

15 JAN 2011

(click images to view full-size, 2000x2000 px)