Anonymous Sex

Jennifer Ray created a five photo piece of work in a park were men go to have anonymous sex. The photos are shoot in real locations and they intrigue you from a far and when you get close to them. You see fake teeth, Viagra, and even a condom wrapper in these photos. Jennifer gets the viewer thinking why would people do this and what kind of people do this. As i kept looking at these five photos I started to ask myself were these items really here or did she place them there to make her point clearer? I think she did. The background of nature and how the grass fell  the leafs, or the entangled trees is real and natural, but the Viagra, dentures, and condom wrapper I feel were intentionally placed in these locations for these photos.
When I viewed all the photos in the MoCP I looked at the photos first completely open minded, then I look at the description given. I think I do that so I don't have a preconceived notion of what the photographer wants me to think or feel while looking at their work.

I think Jennifer was trying to say with these photos that even something so beautiful as nature as a sexual side. We as humans do have sexual pleasures in the open air and people see that as wrong. While viewing these photos if you look closely you see how nature in its self represents the body or sexual images. The two trees with the carving of initials on them are split in two and bent in a way to signify a vagina but are also entwined with each other representing homosexuality. Also the photo with the berries hanging down representing how beautiful and delicate a women’s body is. I think Jennifer did a beautiful and unique way of taking and presenting this photos, but I’m not sure if I like that she faked portions of her photos.