Sunday, May 10, 2015

I came across this picture of a woman in a 3d printed vagina kayak a while back and was lead into the fascinating art of Megumi Igarashi.

Her goal it seems is to de-mystify and de-sexualize female genitalia. A quote from an interview:

"So, with this project I wanted to release the vagina from the standard Japanese paradigm. Japan is lenient towards expressions of male sexuality and arousal, but not so for women. When a woman uses her body in artistic expression, her work gets ignored, and people treat her as if she’s some sex-crazed idiot. It all comes back to misogyny." 

Igarashi intends to change the world through art that can make people smile, which is definitely something I can get on board with. Also just look at these glow in the dark vagina characters.

 Original article/interview: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/13/japan-s-vagina-kayak-artist-fights-back-against-obscenity-charges-and-misogyny.html

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