I wanted to express my internal struggle with femininity through an external manipulation of my form. I chose to use the foot to represent masculine influence for multiple reasons. First, the foot is most easily recognizable as male due to the roughness & hair. Secondly, the foot has ties specifically to eroticism as del as having a particular stigma of being dirty or disgusting. I wanted something that caused a somewhat revolting reaction to manipulate my facial expression. I wanted to highlight the invasiveness of the masculine presence on my femininity and my personal struggle with that.
As mentioned during critique and in the Blackboard post, you've got a strong group this week and are starting to really delve into the content of your work. With this group, I respond most strongly to those where I'm not noticing/thinking about the face as painted - the 4th image down distracts me a bit as I fixate on the pink quality of the face. I think continuing to play around with the fine line between desire and disgust is working well, and the manner you are treating the details in terms of quality of light and image treatment is good. I think you can work within a somewhat consistent stylistic mode if you choose to - you are clearly working with color very well, no need to introduce black and white if it confuses the content. And, indeed I think including multiples that demonstrate a subtle and/or abrupt movement over a brief and/or prolonged time period might be an interesting approach.
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