No. Not at all. What you see, dear reader, is art. Fine Art. Art so refined and complex that many will confuse it with some manner of a children's programme. Indeed, the use of lush, vivid colours, the explicitly childish themes, the toy-like outlook, all these things may throw the inexperienced viewer off the right track. To a trained eye, however, this performance displays a multitude of various undertones, ranging from delightful pastoral idylly to the darkness of a depraved, twisted mind, the very depth of a post-Freudian soul of Man, torn by conflict between the id and the Ego. This piece of art questions our very existence, the justification for mankind's acts of savagery upon the noble, pure bosom of Mother Earth, and fills the spectators with disgust to their own base nature, dirt, and meaninglessness.
And yet the images also give the viewer hope. Hope for a better future, where perhaps one day, everything shall be revealed and made sense of; a world where the the viewer may one day equal the Author with the power of imagery and presentation, the strength of wit and the clarity of vision. The Author's talent, however, is simply out of their grasp - as they shall hear in the closing narrative, the only spoken lines of the performance. The character merely wanted to clean the red contraption, not ride it.
And therein lies the truth.
The phallic imagery and references to mammaries are subtle in this video. Not frequent enough to strike the viewer as vulgar, yet their contribution to the overall tone of the video is enough to keep one's mind full of dirty thoughts.
ReplyDelete(Did I manage to sound like a cinema student? :P)
(You need to be more technical, deliberately fancy, and detached, but it's quite close, I'd say)
ReplyDeleteThere's been some controversy about the use of colours in this particular work. Some opinions have stated that a yellow, or a blue contraption would have been correct in terms of the image composition, rather than the red.
Furthermore, I say that the Author has transcended far above and beyond such meagre, petty concepts, and this art is, essentially, the perfect example of the perfect work of art.
However, it is good of you to bring up the phallic imagery into the spotlight. In addition to what you said, this performance clearly indicates a drive towards the desire to move past the androcentric concept of the world; the images scream to the viewer their secret subliminal message, a message that calls for the viewer to rip off his organs of procreation and join in the celebration of gender equality.