Volunteers needed for vagina art
March 12th, 2009
A Brighton artist is looking for 50 women to help create a giant artwork made up of plastercasts of vulvas.
The finished Design a Vagina artwork will feature molds of 200 vulvas, and is intended as a homage to the natural beauty and variety of the female form.
The title is a play on words, commenting on the trend for surgery to create the ‘perfect’ vagina.
Women who have already had casts taken include a grandmother of 64, a woman with elaborate piercings and people who have had gender reassignment surgery.
“For many women their vagina is a source of shame rather than pride and this piece seeks to redress the balance, showing that everyone is different, everyone is normal, and everyone is beautiful,” explains the artist behind the work, Jamie McCartney.
“For the first time for many women they will be able to see their own genitals in relation of other women’s. In doing so they may dispel many misconceptions they may have been carrying about what women look like ‘down there’.”
The artwork is not pornography, believes McCartney: “200 casts arranged in this manner is in no way pornographic, as it might have been if photographs had been used. One is able to stare without shame but in wonder and amazement at this exposé of human variety.”
The process for making a vulva cast is fast and uses safe, non toxic materials.
Anyone interested in taking part should contact Jamie McCartney at Brighton Body Casting on 07961 338 045 or info@brightonbodycasting.com.
I wonder what else will be created in the world??!!
TatiGui ∼ March 13th, 2009 1:43 pmJust wondered how many of us would recognise our own ; 0
meagain ∼ March 13th, 2009 5:36 pmI love this idea so much.
…and I’d definitely be able to pick out mine from a lineup. No question :-P
Lenni ∼ March 15th, 2009 6:00 amThis is absolutely ridiculous
donna ∼ August 27th, 2010 5:47 pm