The Right to Bear Arms

I was challenged to create a digital “frankenstein”, a collage of one coherent “monster”. At the time I was focused on ideas of masculinity as well as femininity and how we as a society perceive advertisements, as being “real”. I constructed the man in the center from numerous images of men with various gestures, flexing their muscles.

In this work I was referencing images of hindu gods and goddesses, to emphasize the point that we as a society iconize and worship the very photoshop techniques used to create the image. I inserted guns into the head of the figure to over-emphasize masculinity, and in the same moment I am playing on the pun “the right to bear arms”.