Friday, April 3, 2009

Oppenheim: Glove for Parkette (Revise)

With a pink background, the brown, worn gloves stand out. The red veins look like those that might be within human hands ( I couldn't say for sure.. I don't know what those veins actually look like.). The gloves don't look like actual hands, while the veins seem to be painstakingly realistic.

This could represent the fakeness that we often put on our outsides to cover up the inside. We dress up, put make up on, do our hair, act a certain way in order to cover whats truly on the inside. This picture puts the inside out, and shows us what maybe we don't wan to see. It ignores the squeamish aversion to the human anatomy, preferring a more streamlined and generic outside.

I'm not sure what the word Parkett means, but it makes me think of park. I think this kind of pertains to the image. Parks are supposed to represent nature in a more urban setting, but generally they are trimmed, mowed, perfectly manicured version of nature. Nature is dirty, overgrown, sometimes ugly, much like the inside of our bodies. They are perfect or pretty. I may try to reverse the effect of the gloves, by showing a human hand with a generic version of the insides of our hands

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