Graphic Imagery - Series One & Two

     

The images are graphic de-humanisations of a suggestive situation. Immediately erotic, they ask the viewer to look at their own perceptions of nudity, sex and lust. Their construction is key and makes the transition from photograph to graphic image. The girls are posed and highly suggestive. Playful, teasing and simplified in their depiction, they seek to engage with the viewer yet remain impersonal. The girls' faces are not shown, their identities removed. They exist only as themselves with no props, no place and no time, so prompting the questions of who, where and why? They implicate the viewer as the questioning witness, inviting them to be the voyeur. The images encourage the need to see more, yet strictly subtract visual information by expanding and contracting vacant space and selectively controlling the boundaries of both composition and pose, leaving the viewer to construct their own narrative and justify for themselves the allowance of their power as voyeur and the sexual presence before them.