POOF! - Mini Installation

All of my my recent creations have been based off of a series of illustrations I have been doing. The characters in the illustrations are the same ones i have tried to visually pull into our reality.

They represent a merging of Japanese Superflat, it's Yaoi subculture, and american ideals of masculinity.

My recent body of work, POOF!, aims to explore the focus on the masculine in our society. It both drives and destroys. POOF! aims to represent the escape from masculinity. My forms transform as they transcend masculinity. To be masculine is to be of the male sex or gender. Starting as Peni they are so consumed with their masculinity that they embody the penis. As they transcend and accept feminine traits their bodies escape the constraints of their masculine boundaries. Until they reach their perfect forms, as fully developed humans they appear as forms without body parts. This is intended to show them as weak, defenseless, and vulnerable. This is how the world sees the emasculated man and how they view themselves. As they fully develop they regain their limbs and parts as a represent their full transcendence from the views of gender roles and stereotypes. They flaunt their feminine traits and exhibit confidence.