Photo Project and Gender

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For this project I have selected photos that both reflect masculine and feminine representations through texture and imagery. These photos are representations of not only the differences of the duality that these gendered structures represent, but also of the similarities. As the photos progress the images become less obvious in the differences and you begin to see that really the opposition in form is only clear through texture. Judith Butler explains, “Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself...what they imitate is a phantasmic ideal of heterosexual identity...gay identities work neither to copy nor emulate heterosexuality, but rather, to expose heterosexuality as an incessant and panicked imitation of its own naturalized idealization.” The purpose of these photos are to emulate this heteronormity and slowly break down the gendered system to nothing more than just liquid and solid; states of being that neither are opposite or the same, but exit together all the same.