A friend on Facebook posted an interesting design article I came across this weekend, the article was about a design concept in which geometric shapes were symbolic shapes for sexual organs.
The controversial idea is a three-part collection of three cabinets called Dick, Pussy, and Ass by French Designer Arik Levy. The artist states that the stylized geometric furniture boxes can be rearranged to make statements about sexual organs.
Dick, Pussy and Ass by Arik Levy
Each cabinet is made of black-waxed MDF (medium-density fiberboard) and colored with different accents for each piece. For instance, Dick is accented with gray, Pussy with red accents and Ass with yellow accents.
The entire exhibition is called Preliminaries.
Levy comments that the controversy is that the symbolic images are considered inappropriate in society, but he wants to emphasize that these shapes are beautiful. These 3 part pieces can all communicate with each other through rearrangement. For instance, Pussy can be considered loose or tight by the distance for which it is placed. Dick can be considered erect or not based on whether it is up or down, while Ass can communicate with either piece by placing it by any of the sexual organs.
The fact that these sexual organs are reduced to geometric shapes, Levy says, is that it reduced the issue of "vulgarity and obscenity."
Personally, if I had not read the title of the article I would have merely thought these geometric shapes were just badly arranged and that the Ass piece looked a lot like a star, but you tell me!
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