I've had another idea that experiment's with appropriation and taking an image that's not yours and displaying it as your own. I printed off an A4 image of the statue of David's genitalia and held it against my own to see how this would look and the effect was quite strong.

 

Although the image needed shifting around a bit to match exactly where my body began, I began to think about the themes I could portray by experimenting with this piece. The image I was holding was quite clearly of a males body, but as I am female the juxtaposition of me and the image worked well. You can tell that I am female by many tell-tale signs such as the shadow of my breast, the curves of my hips, but slap bang over the top of this is a common photo we all recognise of a males presence. I also liked the suggestive qualities this picture provided as I chose to use my duvet as a backdrop and it is quite a personal way to portray my body. This is when I started to experiment with the medium of displaying this piece. I took a video of me scrunching up the image close to my body.

 

 

I liked the way it gave a rather feminist stance to the piece as I felt it linked to the performance art piece I saw a few weeks ago by Riike Enna at the Manchester Art Gallery, where she broke out of a shell of modroc which made her look like a statue from the past and ripped all the clay off defiantly. The setting she did this in was one of the powerful elements of the piece as she was surrounded by paintings and sculptures by men of the past that forced women into a certain form. I feel like I have shadowed this as I am basically 'crushing' the ideal male form, particularly as I have chosen to use an image from a statue that stands so heroically and is an image that refers to masculinity a lot.

 

 

I'd like to develop this idea further and perhaps use images from other statues or classical art paintings. I could also maybe create a performance piece from this idea aswell.