Wednesday, March 29, 2017

The Male Gaze

The Gaze...inspired by Mickalene Thomas
This selfie was inspired by some of Mickalene Thomas' art work. Most of the women painted kept their eyes on the painter, giving off a gaze such as myself. The one giving off the gaze is called the sitter and the sitter is the one who has control of how he or she, in this case myself, will deliver the gaze. I chose to deliver my gaze as a normal look. As Mickalene said "the gaze itself is like a mirror" and right now I am mirroring myself, but since I am mirroring myself I get to control what I look like and how others should look at me. I can choose to either look like what others wish to see me as or look like how I would like others to see me as.

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