I'm not sure what this picture means except that it seems to go well with the previous entry. For those that don't know, Ron English is the artist whose paintings were featured throughout the film Super Size Me. He also has his own website which is full of other images he's created called Popaganda. Enjoy... or be unsettled and disturbed. It could go either way with this guy's stuff. Or check out: Ron English: Agit-Pop Artist
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This is such an interesting peice...i just love the eight nipples. i am wondering what the hell that means????
obviously they are udders, but why two udders? and why is corporate sickness embodied in the deformity of femaleness? (don't mean to be reading into it *too* much, but those eight nipples--they're pointing at me demanding an answer!!!! :-)
A long time ago I saw a talk by a feminist/vegetarian activist which was getting into how treatment of women relates to treatment of animals in bizzare ways. One point she was getting into was how women's images are used to sell meat in advertising. Also, images of women are "animalized" in different ways "playboy bunnies" are probably the most obvious but there are others.
Also, something else which she said but which I don't think I've heard anywhere else is that for alot of food animals its typically the females (or maybe castrated males) which actually get eaten. (Apparently the male hormones toughen the meat or give it a bad taste)
So the image brought up all kinds of stuff which sort of fits, but I'm not sure which Ron English had in mind.
wow. that's pretty intense. there is just a whole world of sickness going on around the environment and how that connects to the illnesses in a woman's body--so I can really see that reading of it--at the same time, i DO wonder how this sickness defines itself in males as well--i mean, women have the most obvious connection to environmental degradation, as we are so ofen compared to land (mother africa, for example)--but what about men? I think that men have more of a social context for eating meat--"real" men eat huge slabs of raw steak for example, "real" men eat double quater pounders etc. how does that play out in male bodies?
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