What really got me thinking was the constant reference to photographs and images of people in particular that communicated this idea of Gaze. But if the issue is the objectification of women through a representation that lack sentience an obvious side issue arrises. The very act of creating an image of someone is, in the simplest of ways, objectification; literally making an object out of your impression or vision of them. This is proven by the fact that religions like Islam refuse to allow images of their God because it would be to belittle the concept of this God. There have always been cultures that believe photographs remove part of the soul. Women are by far the most photographed and represented in the media; almost shoving this literal objectification under peoples noses, it is only logical that this might become metaphysical and psychological. So, if we stopped trying to pin down and define people in these images perhaps there would be much more inherent respect for the intangible and ever changing idea or concept of a person. I wonder has anyone ever tried to convey this side of a personality. I can't help but feel that this has been in the back of my mind for a while and can rather be seen in one of my latest projects in which I represent my design process.
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