Make Your Own Damn Sandwich

ATTENTION: THIS IS NOT AN ARTIST STATEMENT... I THINK...

Make Your Own Damn Sandwich is my first attempt at experimentation with video making. Lets start with that. I decided to make this video because I wanted to play with the idea of the objectifier and the objectified.

As the objectified, I am critiquing the male gaze and systematic mistreatment of the female body. By critiquing the idea of the saying "make me a sandwich", I am speaking on occurrences in popular culture that are considered acts of abuse but are spoken with a comical tonality. My approach includes dropping, throwing, cutting as a symbol of my internalized anger towards treatment against the female canon.

As an objectifier, I approach my audience with acts of sexual gesture. I am personally touching, rubbing food as if it were a sexual object. My gestural acts are the critique of the male and female gaze as an attempt to communicate the idea that sexualized objectification is everywhere including in the food we eat.

The "sexual experience" is communicated through visual, and auditory approaches which include but are not limited to the use of digital manipulation. This is all in attempt to communicate the object, the viewer, and the camera. It may be a pass/fail attempt but I believe the experience is of value above many other technical issue.

You could say this is a performative piece but it is not the premise of my attempt. what is more important to me is the experience that is happening with the viewer. I want (KEYWORD "I") the viewer to have an experience. I want them to question who they are, how they feel, whether that is nothing, or arousal and why do they feel in such a way.