| Description of Submission: "Silkscreen. This piece is supposed to invoke critical thinking and confront stereotypes by deconstructing the power of suggestive meaning in images and words. First, the piece is composed of an image and text ("your love is ugly). The image, when seen up close, is difficult to determine what it is. Although, the image associated with the "your love is ugly" text suggests a particular statement to evoke anger and judgement. While stepping back the picture becomes clearer and it reveals that it is two people kissing. Then the image and text start to work together, but still the meaning of the piece is ambigous. The picture is cropped so that it is hard to tell the genders; is it a man kissing awoman, a woman kissing a woman, a man kissing a man? Thus this piece trying to cmmunicate an "ugly love" is unsuccessful because it could be either implying heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, transgender sand so forth. The answer is that there is no such thing as an ugly love. The act of trying to convince someon a certain way to love is unsuccessful, since we all love in a different unique ways regardless of what gender our partner happens to be."" - Jeremie Rujanawech |
