Seeing the situation in Ferguson from a safe distance, it looks like a war. But that is what our (German) media is transporting. Rage, anger, hate, violence, black people. The connection is all so simple. Of course This time the message is: „…right now coloured people are justified (in a sense) in being angry and violent.“ But the underlying message remains: „…coloured people are being angry and violent.“ Then again mass media has never been so good in identifying subtle differences or the complexity of the real world. It is a unifying medium….

„Ferguson_001“ original photo AP/Jeff Roberson

„Ferguson_003“ original photo AP

„Ferguson_007“ original photo AP/Jeff_Roberson

„Ferguson_004“ original photo Reuters

„Ferguson_005“ original photo Reuters/Lucas_Jackson

„Ferguson_002“ original photo AP

“Ferguson_009″ original photo AFP

“Ferguson_008″ original photo DPA

„Ferguson_006“ original photo Reuters/Joshua_Lott

There are a lot of (semi-) professional porn actresses that stretch the limit of what can be done physically. Amazing Ty comes to mind, Dirty Garden Girl and Hot Kinky Jo as well as Belladonna & Audrey Hollander, furthermore Sheila Stretch and Taylor Rain… One of the most extreme case of body modification certainly is Roxy Raye. I believe she started out with 3 to 4 (now famous) clips she did on the floor of her kitchen…
dealing in pornography art it was a question of time I had to deal with her. As I still try to be SFW in my porn art (because it is not the obvious sexual aspect that interests me but the sexual meta layer) this is quiet a shy version of her. But it is a 2nd° glitch. Just cropped and sharpened, curves adjusted.

“roxy (her_face_008)”, glitch 2nd°, 800x1034x, 2014

Still I feel the need to add this: I do not judge neither the producers nor the consumers of this kind or any other kind of pornography. This is not my point. I am interested in how pornography in combination with digital media change our perspective on our body, mind and soul. The depiction of the human body is always a clear indicator on how we view our world (to my mind at least). “roxy” is part of the glitch porn art series „Her_Face“. Read more about this series here >>

Sometimes the lucky find still happens. As in this case, a porn glitched just in the right moment. I just pulled the contrasts a little, re-framed and sharpened slightly. I think this still qualifies as 2nd° glitch. This image, to me says a lot about the depiction of the female body / face in modern day Pornography. It is degrading and disturbing, deeply instinctive and bleak. In this it reflects the degrading and bleak vision most humans have for almost any other humans except maybe their friends and relatives.

“bear_with_me (her_face_007)”, glitch 2nd°, 800x800px, 2014

Pixelation is a thing that obsesses me.  Maybe it is because I grew up with Commodore computers in the eighties. Actually I had a VC/VIC 20, that may be it since it had no real graphics capabilities. But there is a deeper meaning to it that fascinates me. It is, to me a profound metaphor for the state of our societies. We tend to structure and simplify everything to a point where the complexity and sharpness of living gets lost in compression.

“the_ring (her_face_006)”, glitch 4th°, 576x381px, 2014

The most interesting thing to humans is another human anyway and if we apply the above mentioned thesis or metaphor to the face of the other, well look and see for yourself…
„the_ring (her_face_006)“ is part of the glitch porn art series „her_face“ that deals with the depiction of the female face or its omission for that matter in modern day web pornography.