Sunday, December 04, 2005

lack of love :: sketches

asaf :: The Source asked me to illustrate a story titled "Lack of love in hip-hop", centering around how women are objectified within the hip-hop community. their idea was to have a guy surrounded by plastic blow-up dolls. these dolls could represent some of the women you might find in hip-hop videos. the male character might even be in the process of blowing up one of the dolls. so this was the starting point, and I tried different variations on this theme. when criticizing machoism and sexism the tricky part is not to end up with an image that is glorifying instead of doing the opposite.

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous3:05 AM

    hi Asaf
    you made me laugh ,you really succeeded to pass the idea (i like the most illustration no. 2).

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  2. i like 4, much more subtle and smarter

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  3. namnam -
    thanks! no. 2 was just a little too much apparently (who knows what's going on underwater over there...)

    d diddy -
    I am not sure "subtle" is the right word to use in this context:)

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