Beautiful pictures of women morphed with insects
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There’s something wonderfully disquieting about photographer and graphic designer Laurent Seroussi’s Insectes series. With these pictures, Seroussi plays on on the idea of the ladybug to fuse the bodies of beautiful women with that of creepy crawlies. Gregor Samsa would be thrilled.
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Janine Whitling Saturday 8 September 2012
I don’t find these beautiful at all. The form of the woman is perfect as it is. Why do people feel the need to morph them into something else unnatural. And really, an insect? Most peoples reactions to insects when they see them is to kill them. How is that if not denigrating to the woman?
Women in society already have so much to deal with, roles, beliefs and ideals, expectations, violence, inequality and so on, and yet here we have an example of a female artist no less just adding to the list of how society can not seem to accept the woman in the glory of her beingness. Indeed, it is disturbing and should be a real cause of concern.
Janine Whitling Saturday 8 September 2012
sorry, my apology, seems that the artist is a man. Of course he is.
Conor Tuesday 11 September 2012
Ms. Whitling, seeing this as some sort of sexist expressionism is not very logical… Why would the women involved have agreed to perform if the director conveyed any sort of belittling or degenerative intention towards them?
“Of course he is (a man).” seems a little hypocritical, do you not think?
Anyway, I interpret this as an interpretation of Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis”.
Conor Tuesday 11 September 2012
And so does the writer, apparently. In which case, I agree!
Journeyman Tuesday 2 April 2013
Janine Whitling, who takes a sexist and hateful snipe at men, seems to have missed the clever and artistic value of women portrayed in a unique and interesting way. Her profound ignorance of mens issues shines through like a beacon on the shores of a dark self-loathing feminist sea, but much worse: females in the insect world are very often the stronger gender, a fact buried by the ugliness of this angry woman.