Sunday, February 3, 2013

Gender-Swapped Fairy Tales

Sleeping Beauty

This is a series of gender-swapped fairy tale illustrations by artist Yudi Chen. These struck my interest not only because the illustrations themselves are quite nice, but because my thesis has had a focus on the reinterpretations of stories and how they can be portrayed visually.

Rapunzel

Tarzana and John

Little Red Cap

Snow White

Beau and the Beast

The Little Merman

Cinderfella

Friday, February 1, 2013

Confessions


Confessions is a public art project created and maintained by artist Candy Chang that resided in The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas during the summer of 2012. Over 1,500 confessions were put up on display on square wooden plaques, written on by the confessors themselves, or recreated on large canvases by the artist.





Inspired by Catholic confessionals, Chang installed a row of booths in which anyone can write down their confession anonymously to be included in the exhibition.