My 2nd 3D design project. Lampin' big dick style with the fake nut sack. Here's my artist's statement:
"When I started thinking about the project the first things that came to my mind were habits or physical attributes I didn’t like or saw as oddities. My first understanding of the assignment was to highlight or hide, something unique to my own body. As I started making mock-ups and sketches, I began thinking more about how a viewer might interpret what I was making. How I might lead one down a path of thinking rather than create something otherwise unexplained and leave it for interpretation sort of evolved into my goal for the project. My first idea with these criteria was my smurf/vail hat, the idea being that when worn, everything but the eyes would be covered, forcing attention to them.
Inspired by Marguax’s uterus, her idea of taking something unseen and revealing it, added to the taboo of sexual organs in general, got me pursuing the idea of the scrotum belt. What struck me about the testicle piece, and finally made me chose to stick with it was how connotative a giant ball sack could be. Something seen as vulnerable but at the same time intrinsically masculine, the larger-than-life nads both achieved my goal of leading the viewer as well as heavily relating to characteristics of my own. “Swagger,” loyalty, initiative, pride, even recklessness, for better or worse are personality traits of mine that directly relate to the idea of ballsiness and are reflected in the work.
Smart may have the brains, but stupid has the balls as the saying goes; while the harness is constructed to fit my waist, the belt could be adjusted to fit anyone really, but who would want to wear a giant set? That said, someone else could wear the piece and I feel the message would stay the same, if not even be intensified were a women to wear it. The juxtaposition of masculinity and femininity I’d argue would enhance the message, as it would heighten the viewer’s awareness of the qualities associated with “having a big sack.”
The materials used, flesh colored canvas, lend an organic feel to the piece. Initially I was going to use both the off-white cloth as well as the white cloth, using the off-white for the sack and the white for the belt/harness. I later decided to use only the off-white to make the piece more uniform. The soft n crafty testicles give the bollocks a believable girth and weight, allowing the gonads to hang low while not appearing stretched or overly heavy. Overall I’m quite happy with the final results and can’t wait to photograph them to see how they look formally presented."
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