This collage was my response to The Use of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by the "radical feminist" writer Audre Lorde, in which she discusses how pornography is used as a regulator of the dissemination of power through sexuality. I chose the specific image-making strategy of cut-paper silhouettes to represent the cookie-cutter, two-dimensional distortion of the erotic present in pornography. I added a glimpse of a gay porn actor, Malachi Marx, who in reality is straight, as a reference to the plasticity of gay pornography, as well as to reference the role of the voyeur. The asterisks are used to call out the supposed points of pleasure in pornography for us to reexamine. Ultimately, the writing of radical feminists has influenced my perspective, which I wanted this collage to depict.
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