It’s The Great Wall of Vagina, Charlie Brown (NSFW)
From the mailbag today comes this tip about a new art exhibit going up at the Brighton Festival Fringe.
The Great Wall of Vagina, by UK sculptor Jamie McCartney, features 400 plaster casts of various bajngos across the pond. Yes, nothing but Brit Clit, as far as the eye can see.
Why?
Well, I’ll let the artist explain his raison d’cooter:
Vulvas and labia are as different as a faces and many people, particularly women, don’t seem to know that… showing the variety of shapes is endlessly fascinating, empowering and comforting. For many women their genitals are a source of shame rather than pride and this piece seeks to redress the balance, showing that everyone is different and everyone is normal.
There you go. It’s empowering. And comforting. And something something shame pride blah blah blah.
Also, many women, particularly Cylons, don’t know that vaginas are all different, and assume we all have identical, after market hoo-has! So thanks for the update, Dr. Snatch.
And by the way, if you were the kind of woman who was ashamed of your vagina, do you really think looking at a wall full of tacos that looked NOTHING LIKE YOURS would empower you? I can’t even look at hairstyle magazines without feeling inadequate.
Maybe it’s me. Maybe I just don’t get the whole pussy pride thing. Being born with a vagina doesn’t seem like a big accomplishment to me. It’s not like you had to go to school for it. Your parents boned, they had a girl, the end. The only thing worse than being proud of your genitals is being proud of your area code. 3-1-0, MOTHERFUCKER!
I guess I’m just twatted out. I have seen so much vulvacraft in the last year and a half that it barely registers. If you attached electrodes to my head and measured my response to vagina art, it would probably be the same level of interest as watching Dog the Bounty Hunter. Unlike the women who showed up and had hardened plaster ripped from their loins, I feel nothing.
Of course, there is one thing that could save this. One thing that could separate the meat from the chaff, and really rocket this exhibit into the craftosphere.
And I think you know what I’m talking about.
UPDATE FROM THE COMMENTS:
“My vagina is actually up there. Yes, I was feeling at a low ebb and for some God forsaken, unknown reason, I signed up for it. And yes, after telling me that he got to have sex with most of the women and he did find it a very sexy experience… he did try to persuade me to join the long list. Young and silly I was, but to my eternal relief I didn’t join that list.”
Sounds empowering! – HK
March 14, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Needs more yellow glaze.
March 14, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Agreed! They should have been made in terracotta and then sprinkled with yellow glaze like the sumo cats from regretsy memoirs. At least it would make more sense to sprinkle vaginas, than innocent puss cats…
March 14, 2011 at 11:34 pm
i think our fearless leader HK has vag burnout, and that’s tough for a straight chick to do! i actually think (like rodney dangerfield would say) the great wall of vagina is well … great. go cooches!
March 15, 2011 at 8:11 am
I think there’s an ointment for vag burnout.
March 14, 2011 at 2:13 pm
It’s an excuse for the twit artist to explore his fascination with female genitalia. Boring. Sad. Sad and boring.
March 14, 2011 at 3:58 pm
I know this comment has been hidden, but I have to say that hollywood has a point.
March 14, 2011 at 4:52 pm
That was my thought. Guy can’t get any, so…”I’ll call it art, and women will take their pants off for me for free!”
Also, wouldn’t it be nice if people still had their profession in their name? Used to be, if you’re name was Smith, people knew you were a blacksmith…so Dr. Snatch or Dr. Cooterman would be perfect when you’re looking for a female-parts doctor.
March 14, 2011 at 9:36 pm
I would have a
lot moreat least some respect for this guy if he would’ve just admitted this up front.March 15, 2011 at 11:20 am
haha! he basically did. Unfortunately (not that i regret it) my vagina is actually up there. yes, i was feeling at a low ebb and for some godforsaken unknown reason i signed up for it. and yes,after telling me that he got to have sex with most of the women and he did find it a very sexy experience (no shit!gooey, hot, slimy vaseline and plaster on young shaved punani!) he did try to persuade me to join the long list. young and silly I was but to my eternal relief I didn’t join that list. its art anyway ! hahahahahahahaaaa
He sounds like a real champion for feminism. My hero! – BD
March 16, 2011 at 12:51 am
yeah it was so majorly empowering! i followed this up with telling my boss to go fuck herself, putting my flat up for sale and buying a 1 way ticket to the caribbean, so getting my vagina immortalised in plaster wasn’t the only positive career move i made that year.
March 14, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Yay, I’m gonna make my OWN great wall of vagina!
http://brightonbodycasting.com/vagina-casting-kit.php
March 14, 2011 at 9:50 pm
It comes with a pot of Nivea. But even still I don’t think that I would be comfortable putting plaster down there.
March 15, 2011 at 1:08 am
What ever happened to making a nice plaster cast of your hand?
March 14, 2011 at 2:16 pm
I can respect my junk without seeing it. You don’t have to rub my face in it.
March 14, 2011 at 2:26 pm
I think the artist is rubbing her face in it.
March 14, 2011 at 2:52 pm
HIS face.
March 14, 2011 at 2:29 pm
Also it would hurt your back.
March 14, 2011 at 2:32 pm
It’s a skill you learn with time. Patients, my child.
March 14, 2011 at 2:32 pm
*Patience.
March 14, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Heard about the nurse who got fired for trying her doctor’s patients?
March 14, 2011 at 3:18 pm
I, too, can respect the junk without rubbing my face in it, but it sure is a lot of fun!
March 14, 2011 at 2:17 pm
More like… Brighton Festival Minge 8D
(omg Regretsy’s changed)
March 14, 2011 at 2:18 pm
Once again, you take the mundane and make it art! And I’m talking about the ‘staches.
March 14, 2011 at 2:20 pm
Needs glitter.
March 14, 2011 at 10:47 pm
CLITTER! It’s glitter, for your vagina!
March 15, 2011 at 11:21 am
Don’t laugh until you’ve read the punchline. Regresty, I present to you: Vajazzling! The act of putting glitter and fake jewels on your nether regions.
http://www.vajazzling.com/
http://www.buzzfeed.com/theluxuryspot/vajazzling-is-real-ttc
Do I need to insert a punchline?
March 15, 2011 at 2:19 pm
I see your punchline and raise you an advertising video for the Clitter product!
(Okay, it’s a parody video, but it’s funny.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR4O68kUj5c
March 16, 2011 at 10:55 am
that has got to be the worst music ever
March 14, 2011 at 2:20 pm
Voila La Mustache Clam
March 14, 2011 at 2:39 pm
*I think you meant ‘wah-la.’
March 14, 2011 at 3:29 pm
I prefer when they spell it “Walla”. Seriously by the time you’re an adult, how do you not at least once see “Voila” used properly and realize it’s not spelled with a W?
I mean, your and you’re … that requires some degree of thought and practice. I can cringe but I don’t get just plain exasperated with the human race when I read it.
March 14, 2011 at 8:35 pm
@eHostility: ever so much more hip and creamy than, say, a *bearded* clam.
March 14, 2011 at 2:21 pm
I live near enough to Brighton to actually go and visit this. For the sake of Regretsy I might need to go and view this. So I can take pictures to share.
March 14, 2011 at 2:24 pm
I want to take a pocketful of ‘taches and an octopus…
March 14, 2011 at 2:39 pm
Dria you have GOT to take a paper mustache with some double sided tape on the back, whack it on one of them and take a photo before security tackle you down. DO IT FOR US ALL.
March 14, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Yes, yes!!
(yeah, I know, “That’s what SHE said.”)
March 14, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Vajazzle yourself silly for us!
March 14, 2011 at 9:50 pm
If I can buy popsicle stick lamps you HAVE to go get some IRL pics of the vagina wall!!
March 14, 2011 at 2:21 pm
And for those of you that are unhappy with your vajahoos, I have done extensive [amazon] research on body building for vaginas expressly for the benefit of the self esteem of your lady parts:
. http://honesthyperboles.blogspot.com/2011/01/vagina-enhancer.html
March 14, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Good lord, these are Regretsy-worthy on their own.
Especially that first one
March 22, 2011 at 4:14 pm
I just want to say, the amount of link-love I got from my fellow regretsians was phenomenal. You made my little black heart happy.
March 14, 2011 at 2:21 pm
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March 14, 2011 at 2:21 pm
There was a show on in the UK about teen sex, that featured this guy. This couple were sent to him because the guy was terrified of going down on his lady. Somehow, taking a cast of her bajingo solved his problem.
March 14, 2011 at 2:23 pm
Seeing this makes me glad that Wedgwood never came out with a commemorative Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party china pattern.
March 14, 2011 at 2:23 pm
I don’t know about any of you fine ladies, but looking at these labia make me feel a bit better about mine.
It looks like they shot plaster through a leaf blower to get the molds.
March 14, 2011 at 5:23 pm
Morgan Freeman narrates: Shamed, the vagclam reverts into its shell, digging in for another night of self-loathing and ice cream.
March 14, 2011 at 5:57 pm
The Vagclam: so common, yet often unseen fully like these mold-cast examples.
Supposedly the scent is taken from the elusive vagclam for making perfume-type substances that is said to increase the sex drive, but that sounds a bit fishy.
March 15, 2011 at 1:48 pm
March 14, 2011 at 6:22 pm
I’m gonna have to agree with you there, I think he must have intentionally picked extra flappety ones for a little more “texture” or something… ergo art.
March 14, 2011 at 8:25 pm
labia in a wind tunnel?
March 14, 2011 at 2:24 pm
I’ll take the “Gene Shalit”…
March 14, 2011 at 2:25 pm
The muffstaches are a definite improvement.
March 14, 2011 at 2:25 pm
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March 14, 2011 at 4:38 pm
Honey, hermaphrodites are born that way, and frankly you’re being a bitch.
March 14, 2011 at 5:50 pm
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March 14, 2011 at 2:26 pm
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March 14, 2011 at 2:30 pm
I could never get into this vagina-pride bullshit either.
But my, what distinguished-looking mustaches,
March 14, 2011 at 2:33 pm
The web site has a video. NSFW
There’s also a DIY kit. You get alginate to make the negative casting, and plaster to make the positive casting. Just £39.00 at the low introductory rate. A savings of £211.00 if you had it done at their studio.
That’s how you can tell the pervert from the artist. If they’re charging £250.00 for something my uncle Albert would do for free (he gets out in 18 years), then it’s art.
March 14, 2011 at 3:38 pm
Maybe I’ll order one for my mom for mother’s day. “Happy Mother’s Day! This is what my vulva looks like when it’s covered in plaster! I know, I know, it’s not very flattering. That’s why I added the glitter and macaroni.”
March 14, 2011 at 6:32 pm
Glitter and macaroni on vulva? Sounds like a good platter of pasta puttanesca in the making!
March 14, 2011 at 9:59 pm
Don’t you mean pusscanesca?
March 16, 2011 at 9:17 pm
Poontangesca ;D
bahahhahahaha XD
June 17, 2011 at 10:35 am
I see what you did there! (puttanesca = “little whore”)
March 14, 2011 at 2:34 pm
hilarious!!!
March 14, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Props to my home town! If I can collect enough ‘taches I am willing to make this happen.
March 14, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Jesus Christ on rye, that is creepy. A whole wall of corpsy, bleached bajingos (it’s like something out of The Cell, for fuck’s sake) is not the way to make me feel better about my lady parts. No sir.
March 14, 2011 at 5:52 pm
At least they haven’t been cast in latex.
March 14, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Sorry, Jamie, but you have nothing new here… The concept has already been shown years ago in sex and the city.
I wonder if he used live models, worked from memory or used reference images off the internet?..
March 14, 2011 at 2:43 pm
It’s all live and in person. Watch the video for your answer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoQ3I2TJBt8&feature=player_embedded&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fbrightonbodycasting.com%2Fdesign-a-vagina.php&has_verified=1
March 14, 2011 at 2:52 pm
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March 14, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Vaginas
March 14, 2011 at 5:26 pm
Or possibly Rick Astley. I’m too lazy to look.
March 14, 2011 at 9:32 pm
Coming right up.
March 17, 2011 at 6:20 pm
I saw that on cable a few months ago. He was just a little too smirky and suspect, and the host seemed too grown up and smart to fall for it, but she did. I knew guys like this in art school in college. One foundry tech 20+ years my senior wanted to help me cast my own boobs for a metal brassiere or something that I was making. He was so serious about convincing me why I needed his help. Barf. Dime a dozen. I swear to god, men will do anything to get laid.
March 14, 2011 at 3:04 pm
Yawwwnnn. . .definitely not new. Cynthia Plaster Caster covered (or rather uncovered) this territory years ago. I don’t think she built a wall of cock blocks, though.
March 14, 2011 at 3:57 pm
Cock blocks…hehe
You probably couldn’t mount those on the wall, you’d poke an eye out!
March 14, 2011 at 4:15 pm
that depends on how flattering the artist is and weather the models had a stimulating incentive:)
March 14, 2011 at 5:14 pm
I’d likely set one down on a chair if I was going to mount it. How would you even get up to it on a wall?
March 14, 2011 at 7:10 pm
@kat, three words: “Trapeze sold separately”
Actually, one artist at an erotic art festival last year created a shockingly realistic wall-mounted penis. He boasted that two out of two practicing urologists could scarcely tell the difference between his hand-crafted testes and real ones.
March 14, 2011 at 7:56 pm
What you need is a whole bunch of those dildos with suction cup bases. Whaa-laa!
March 14, 2011 at 4:02 pm
Cock blocks would be awesome. At least you could hang stuff on them.
March 14, 2011 at 4:24 pm
or if they are hung in a public transport you can hold on to them…
March 14, 2011 at 8:57 pm
NSFW
http://208.90.155.93/2009/07/09/double-penetration-coat-hook.web.jpg
March 15, 2011 at 7:49 am
Finally, someplace to hang my Snooki mask
March 15, 2011 at 7:08 am
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Plaster-Caster-lyrics-Kiss/491363520F61E44E48256A8B0004CBB4
March 14, 2011 at 2:40 pm
If I’m not mistaken, this is an “art museum” which are often frequented by conservative types. I imagine this is likely to be conceptually challenging “work” to that set. There are a lot more open minds in the world today…but that doesn’t mean there aren’t quite a few closed minds that could benefit from some opening by something like this.
Have you NOT seen a production of the vagina monologues? Women are still being repressed in the world today. Maybe not in Brighton, but…think of it like this: showing happens in Brighton, somebody takes pictures and posts about it on the ‘net, and somebody in say IRAN reads about it. Mind opened. Sparks rebellion. World changes. Why not?
March 14, 2011 at 2:44 pm
Open minds from open legs? Viva la revolucion!
March 14, 2011 at 2:50 pm
I think you mean “vulva la revolucion”.
March 14, 2011 at 2:56 pm
*yay!*
March 15, 2011 at 7:27 am
Vulva FTW!
March 14, 2011 at 3:03 pm
Yes, women are being repressed, but I’m sorry, I just don’t see a wall of vaginas empowering Iranian women.
March 14, 2011 at 3:08 pm
To be honest, I can see a display like this factoring into the next outrage at the decadent and morally-loose western world (Boobquake, anyone?), at which point I could see it having the opposite effect than what was intended.
March 14, 2011 at 4:30 pm
If he wanted to make a point about the oppression and abuse of women, he could have made casts of abused and mutilated vaginas. That might have been eye/mind opening. This is just garbage.
March 14, 2011 at 6:26 pm
Yes, a corridor of chalky cast clitoridectomies would be emotionally engaging, at least. This panel of pallid plaster pudenda is not.
March 14, 2011 at 7:57 pm
If you go to the website, the artist talks about trying to find a model who had been the victim of FGM. Not surprisingly, he was unable to find one.
March 14, 2011 at 7:12 pm
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March 14, 2011 at 2:42 pm
I think I remember this guy’s Craigslist ad looking for models:
“Single Brit Artist seeks woman with unusual or artistic ‘toad in the hole’ for fascinating and empowering project. Must be willing to have wet plaster drip into your Queen Victoria. NO SPAMMERS!”
March 14, 2011 at 2:43 pm
My teenage daughter has recently developed a real bug up her bajingo about Pride Organizations, countering them with, “so why can’t I be proud of being a middle-class, white, blonde, blue-eyed female?” Because two derps do not make a rocket scientist, that’s why. Being proud of being white, black, tan, or sugar-free hazelnut latte flavored is just as stupid as being proud of being born with a cooter. Or a doodle noodle, for that matter.
The moustaches DO make all the difference–we unite in
FOLLICULAR FRATERNITY!
Oh, wait, we’re chicks, so it should be sorority, but then there’s no alliteration… gimme a second…
‘STACHIOED SORORITY!
wait, wait… there’s gotta be another one…
MERKINIZED MATERNITY!
Okay, that’s all I got. I’ll go try and draw something funny now.
March 14, 2011 at 5:25 pm
EXACTLY. I had a roomie once who got a women symbol tattooed over her heart (she was hetero) out of female pride. I always ground my teeth about that, thinking “What does that have to do with you? The gender you came out is random. If you have nothing more special than that to base your identity upon, you are pretty insipid.” Even the fact that I am against margarine and use only butter says more about who I * really AM* than what crotch accessories I happened to grow. or people who’ve lived in Winnipeg for 10 generations getting kilts & bagpipes for their wedding because of “pride in their heritage” What is up with that?
Gay or black pride is different- It doesn’t so much say “this random attribute of mine is an AWESOME achievement!” as “I feel every bit as much potential as someone else similar to me but without this random attribute of mine, and fuck you if you try to argue that it makes me any less!”
March 14, 2011 at 5:36 pm
You can let your daughter know there was a pride organization for people like us (I am also a white, blonde, blue-eyed female), they were called “Nazis,” but they disbanded for some reason.
I say that entirely joking, please don’t be offended. It was the answer I always got growing up with a snotty older brother.
Also, I’m highly offended that you took my name. I actually have an email address that starts with easilydistractedgirl@…
March 14, 2011 at 2:43 pm
Cece n’est pas la bajango.
March 14, 2011 at 2:45 pm
“Ages so far range from 18 year old students to a grandmother of 76.”
..Are they implying that a woman with 76 grandchildren has her cooter plastered on a wall? Because it sounds like they’re implying that a woman with 76 grandchildren has her cooter plastered on the wall.
March 14, 2011 at 8:10 pm
I believe they mean she’s 76 years old. An awkward way to denote age but not uncommon, usually you hear someone say “when I was a lad of 8″ or something. But then again it’s very possible for her to have 76 grandkids if she had 8 or 9 children who each had 8 childen of their own. But old lady cooters encased in plaster are disturbing regardless of semantics
March 14, 2011 at 2:46 pm
I wonder how many of the owners of these vaginas object to full body scans at the airport?
March 14, 2011 at 2:46 pm
The making of this art piece was featured in the documentary “The Perfect Vagina.” It seems that a great many women (at least in the UK) have quite serious self-esteem issues regarding their twats, to the point that it is fairly common that for young women to get labiaplasties just to feel less like horrible freaks. I understand not being in that state of mine (I certainly haven’t felt any vagina-shame in my life) but I hate to see so many people trivializing something that could have a ton of meaning to someone with a body image SO shitty, that she is willing to hack off parts of her genitals to feel better. It’s really worth a watch, despite the silly name and the presenter I ended up hating for her constant usage of childish euphemisms like “lady bits.” ಠ_ಠ
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/perfect-vagina/
March 15, 2011 at 12:29 am
I saw that documentary a while ago and when you are watching it the artwork doesn’t even seem that taboo if you ask me… Maybe because they showed those room fulls of women looking at each others vaginas before hand…
March 15, 2011 at 8:05 pm
I have to admit I kind of agree. I was reading the Advisor in Playboy a while back and this woman wrote in saying she was too embarrassed to let her dude go down on her. She went on to detail “a deformity” which turned out to be her inner labia being longer than her outer labia. My heart broke a little when I read that.
March 14, 2011 at 2:47 pm
This seems to just be a very public and expensive way to get all the hair from your nether regions removed.
March 14, 2011 at 2:47 pm
I question the artist’s motivation, but I did like the women’s reactions to getting the casts done, in the video.
March 14, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Is it weird that I’m slightly fascinated by this exhibit? It would be interesting to say the least. My advice? Probably not the best place for a first day, just my humble opinion
March 14, 2011 at 2:50 pm
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March 14, 2011 at 2:51 pm
*blinks* i.. no.. i’m not going to say i haven’t seen worse pretentious bullshittery … but this is pretty up there…
i just wonder if this guy would find a wall full of cocks as fascinating… maybe he should to that and they should be on the opposite wall facing each-other…..
dont worry HK i dont get this shit either really. theyre a bunch of plaster cast crotches.. whoopee frigin do. can you all just keep it in your pants now.. Im not interested in what anyone elses crotch looks like. (also there are no penises here so even less thrilling)
March 14, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Honestly, until I found Regretsy, I had no idea I was expected to feel paralyzing shame over the appearance of my lady parts. Frankly, I’ve been spending so much time crying myself to sleep over my hideous small intestine, I never got around to it.
March 14, 2011 at 3:49 pm
I’d like to give you more thumbs up but I my shameful hands covered in glingers.
March 14, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Personally, my spleen has NOT aged well.
March 14, 2011 at 4:36 pm
I didn’t want to say anything, daisyj, but your small intestine really is sub-par.
March 14, 2011 at 11:19 pm
But your left lung is a thing of beauty. Does my gall bladder look lopsided to you? I’m thinking of having it straightened.
March 14, 2011 at 2:53 pm
I heard that they were going to show this in Amsterdam first but then canceled because they didn’t want people touching the art. After all, we’ve all heard about the little Dutch boy who stuck his finger in a dyke.
March 14, 2011 at 2:56 pm
The mustaches are genius. Genius!
March 14, 2011 at 2:57 pm
Ok, so I’m thinking you gotta put your hooha into something that hardens, whether it’s for a negative mold or whatever, but, you let that shit harden down there, and then rip it off? I couldn’t even stand the orthodontist doing that for braces on my teeth!
March 14, 2011 at 4:28 pm
I know. I reeeeeeeeeeally don’t want to think about the process by which these molds were made. o.O
March 14, 2011 at 4:35 pm
When I was in grade school, I got to make a plaster mold of my face. I don’t remember the details, but I’m fairly sure there was no pain involved.
March 14, 2011 at 5:55 pm
Witha bonus depilation? A couple of straws up the nose, too.
March 14, 2011 at 3:03 pm
Are there really that many ladies out there who still feel ashamed by the shape of their private areas? In this day and age? Maybe in Saudi Arabia or darkest Africa there are small villages that teach women to feel a sense of shame at their femininity, but in Brighton AKA “the gay capital of England” this looks like nothing more than a desperate cry for attention. Warmed-over rebellion in a town that has no need for it.
What a load of pretentious twaddle. Er, bad choice of words.
March 14, 2011 at 3:30 pm
Dude, small villages in deepest darkest Africa? There are tons of women in the western world who get surgeries to make sure their breasts and eyelids and lips and noses, and those are the parts we’re *aren’t* supposed to be ashamed of. Why would our vulvas be any different?
March 14, 2011 at 3:56 pm
They aren’t any different. Vaginoplasty/vaginal rejuvenation is a growth industry. It’s supposed to put new life into your relationship.
March 15, 2011 at 5:53 am
What, like Frankenstein put new life into his monster?
March 14, 2011 at 3:33 pm
Seems like the wrong audience if Brighton is the “gay capital of England”. Why would they care?
March 14, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Maybe the audience he’s intending to attract are militant lesbian separatists? I can’t really imagine any of the gay men I know walking into that exhibit of their own free will.
March 14, 2011 at 4:01 pm
to quote James Monahan the IratePirate “…I will work on female inspired pieces but not with pleasure as I am gayer than handbag full of rainbows.”
March 16, 2011 at 3:30 pm
militant lesbian separatists, try saying that 5 times real fast
March 14, 2011 at 3:48 pm
There are ads all over upscale magazines for “vaginal rejuvenation surgery” and other such procedures for your nether regions. So yeah, the insecurity is out there.
This, however, is NOT the way to deal with said insecurity!
March 14, 2011 at 5:06 pm
Maybe he is ashamed by his vagina. It would explain a lot.
March 14, 2011 at 9:20 pm
did you mean *twattle*?
March 14, 2011 at 11:54 pm
Um, “maybe in Saudi Arabia or darkest Africa there are small villages that teach women to feel a sense of shame at their femininity”?
How about vast segments of the population enforce the idea that a women is not properly feminine unless she has parts of her genitals cut out?
March 15, 2011 at 11:41 am
What are you “Um”ing about? Vast segments of what population?
March 16, 2011 at 10:45 am
oops, I meant to thumbs down this, just getting used to it.
March 14, 2011 at 3:05 pm
i really like this, and i agree with Micah, there are still many women, even in ‘progressive cultures’ that are ashamed of their bodies, and feel like there is some uniform ideal that they should conform to. you can even get cosmetic surgery for purely aesthetic reasons!
i don’t think it’s a matter of promoting “pussy PRIDE” as much as confronting feelings of shame or embarrassment that many women are consciously or subconsciously taught to feel about their bodies.
not everyone has to like it or identify with it, but dismissing it on the basis that it doesn’t make YOU personally feel anything is a bit naive.
that being said…adding the mustaches was pretty ingenious
March 15, 2011 at 8:41 am
Totally agree with this.
The Wall would also be helpful to inexperienced straight boys, letting them know the amount of variance out there so they don’t point and go “What’s that?!” the first time they see a girlcrotch that doesn’t look like the ones in porn.
March 15, 2011 at 11:11 am
Actually, both of these points are very valid. I can agree that not all women feel bad about their labia, but enough do to warrant this amazing story (warning/encouragement, nudity!): http://vimeo.com/10883108
I’d encourage everyone of a suitable age to watch it. Hell, it’s not pornographic. I’d encourage 13-year olds to watch it, just so they get can some perspective on this.
Also, this idea is not original/has been repeated at MONA, the Museum of Old and New Art. The vaginas are all individual casts, adorning the entire side of a very long corridor.
March 14, 2011 at 3:15 pm
I thought Bearded Clams was more appropriate.
http://i52.tinypic.com/wt8zk0.jpg
March 14, 2011 at 3:17 pm
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March 15, 2011 at 8:05 am
And men wonder why some women feel ashamed of their body parts?
March 15, 2011 at 5:18 pm
It’s amazing that there are people who never manage to have sex with the same person twice and just don’t understand why.
March 16, 2011 at 10:44 am
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March 14, 2011 at 3:17 pm
What the hell does a MAN know about how women feel about their lady parts, anyway?? That’s the part I can’t get past. “I’m making a statement for all those hoohas out there, I want to empower women!” Screw the plaster pussies – take on the fucking ADVERTISEMENT INDUSTRY and the FASHION INDUSTRY. Then I’ll be impressed. Douchebag.
March 14, 2011 at 4:26 pm
“Screw the plaster pussies”…That may be a little difficult. Just sayin’
March 15, 2011 at 8:31 am
How do you know the artist didn’t have girlfriends (or friend-friends) who expressed insecurity about their “bits”?
Similarly, I’m a straight girl and if I wanted to do art to make guys less insecure about their penis size, I consider myself fully qualified. I’ve dealt with a lot of insecurity over perfectly lovely boyparts in my day.
March 14, 2011 at 3:21 pm
Wait a second…..vaginas don’t all look the same!? -brain explosion-
Also, so many BSG references lately, I don’t know if I (or my poor pants) can handle much more of it!
March 14, 2011 at 3:23 pm
A few of those in the kitchen would be great for hanging tea towels.
March 14, 2011 at 4:03 pm
No that’s why we need the boy version…
March 15, 2011 at 6:41 am
Crap! I didn’t see your awesome post before I made mine.
March 14, 2011 at 3:24 pm
OMG! BBC America featured this dude in their documentary, Perfect Private Parts.
As I recall, it was surprisingly insightful.
March 14, 2011 at 3:27 pm
This is actually really cool. There’s a documentary done over there about the trend in labiaplasty or whatever it’s called when a doctor trims your bits up. They featured this artist as an example of how all women look different and there is no one ideal.
It’s not so much vagina pride, I think, as it is, “Stop asking us to do unspeakable stuff to our junk just because you find it unattractive.”
And Bronc, yes, there are enough women out there ashamed of their lady parts that they have surgery to “correct” the problem. That blows my mind.
March 14, 2011 at 3:42 pm
Thank you for saying exactly what I was thinking. Only eloquently and without mentioning airbrushing and the fact that labiaplasty is very common in Porn stars, which is a whole other issue.
March 14, 2011 at 4:06 pm
It seems like a lot of the push for surgery comes from a fear of being “too loose”. Comments like the above “I could hear an echo” just add to the fear. Ladies, there are no vaginas that are too loose. There are only men whose cocks are too small.
March 14, 2011 at 4:24 pm
This comment is anti-male and makes me feel confused and inadequate. I may need a wall of plaster casts to restore my sense of self-worth.
March 14, 2011 at 4:33 pm
The Clone-A-Willy people have got you covered. You could even get a wall of VIBRATING casts — how’s that for boosting your self-confidence?
March 14, 2011 at 10:42 pm
Now I want to see a wall of vibrating Willy clones.
March 14, 2011 at 6:20 pm
I think that if you polled 1,000,000 women who wanted labiaplasty, exactly zero of them would change their mind after viewing this hokey art installation.
March 14, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Pretty much… if you showed a girl who wanted a nose job plaster casts of one hundred random people, it probably isn’t going to change her mind. Why would this be any different?
March 16, 2011 at 10:58 am
Wrong.
March 14, 2011 at 6:25 pm
But then, can’t you say that about ALL plastic surgery?? All women have different breasts – size, shape, perkiness – as well as different noses and ears and eyelids and butts and bellies. Does that mean we need a wall of asses for us to realize we don’t need to have plastic surgery??
NO – I will say again that our own anxiety over our image and size and shape of our entire body is there because of the advertisements, movies, and television shows we are exposed to almost every second of every day. This wall of vaginas isn’t going to do half the good the Dove campaign has done for self esteem.
What blows my mind is the multi-billion dollar industries that produce implants, and injections, and cosmetics, and creams, and hair color, and teeth bleaching. It’s disgusting.
March 14, 2011 at 3:28 pm
There is so much awesomeness to this and it is all HK!
Great wall of Vaginas
Brit clit
raison d’cooter
after market hoo-has
pussy pride
I guess I’m just twatted out. I have seen so much vulvacraft in the last year and a half that it barely registers. (me too!)
I am just overwhelmed – and all this on a Monday.
What a fantastic way to start the week.
March 14, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Personally I am still waiting for the great wall of penises…..
March 14, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Ok it’s not great but it’s a wall:
March 14, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Of course, now that I think about it… if he truly feels vaginas are all unique and different and that’s okay, how come he did them all in one color so they all matched? Maybe he’s not as comfortable with “different” as he thinks he is.
March 14, 2011 at 4:07 pm
I think that giving them color would have required work on the part of the artist. It’s not like he sculpted these himself, so why put any more creative energy into it than is absolutely necessary. If you can get away with less effort and still get a reaction, you’re done!
March 14, 2011 at 3:35 pm
I have a feeling it originally went down something like this:
“Doot de doo, I’m a hipster in a pub and I want to get a good shag. Wow, that girl at the bar sure looks hot… oh but she’s way out of my league. What to do?” And then the idea for this hit him. “Urethra! I’ve got it!”
March 14, 2011 at 3:36 pm
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March 14, 2011 at 3:39 pm
woohoo, my hometown on regretsy! how i love you brighton. um, and how i hate you sometimes too.
March 14, 2011 at 3:39 pm
Well. During the preparation of this work, the artist snail-mailed postcards showing parts of the sculpture to various friends or friends of friends of his around the world, and asked them to mail them back to him without an envelope – to check how many would actually reach him etc etc.
I was one of the postcards’ recipients.
What do I win? :p
March 14, 2011 at 4:09 pm
Complimentary cooter cast?
March 14, 2011 at 9:09 pm
astounding alliteration, Easily Distracted.
March 14, 2011 at 3:42 pm
Now, if there was a corresponding wall of penii on the opposite wall, the display would be perfect!
March 14, 2011 at 3:49 pm
Do I dare to say: it’s a lesbian’s paradise??? err…hehe
But somehow… that doesn’t seem so much empowering… or comfortable…
March 14, 2011 at 4:11 pm
Why do I ever think that I can look at Regretsy without signing in? Every time I think I can just stop by for a quick look-see, I am hit over the head with something like this. I never cease to be amazed.
March 14, 2011 at 4:13 pm
Balls to the walls
Bajingos to the wall
Equal opportunity
March 14, 2011 at 4:14 pm
Am I the only one annoyed that they’re calling it “The Great Wall of Vagina”, when there’s not a single vagina on there? THEY’RE VULVAS!
March 14, 2011 at 10:44 pm
You’re not the only one. Calling women’s genitals “vaginas” is about as accurate as calling men’s genitals “urethras” or “testicles.”
March 15, 2011 at 4:56 am
i know!!!! my god, you can’t even SEE the vagina in those molds!! Its the vulva!!
March 15, 2011 at 4:57 am
i think maybe the word vagina is hipster or something
March 15, 2011 at 9:58 am
I think “vulva” is the more hipster word, because, you know, like nobody has ever heard of it.
March 15, 2011 at 10:57 am
Try row 3, cast 6. Looks like a vagina, cervix and even a bit of womb to me. But I’m no OBGYN, maybe we should ask one.
March 14, 2011 at 4:33 pm
Yeah, gunna go with my gut reaction and say this is awesome. And yes, I think there is still a lot of insecurity about how vaginas stack up to other women’s… a lot of sex ed classes don’t really do a good job of telling women what to expect from their own bodies outside of the standard “you’ll have a period, maybe get pregnant a few times, and go through menopause”. I went to an all-girls school with what I felt was a fairly comprehensive program in the sex ed field, but we spent a lot more time talking about the differences in breast shape and size then we did about look, texture, and potential health problems in our vaginas. I’m all about this installation, I think it’s great, I hope that some people come away from it feeling more comfortable in their own skin.
March 15, 2011 at 8:32 am
Honestly, I think that’s what’s depressing me about this art installation. The idea that vulvas are still quarantined to some sort of “art” installation rather then being a normal part of a rational health education program.
Girls and women should know what a wide array of “normal” bits look like. Normal in the sense of healthy. If only to be able to help themselves keep things healthy. And I’m not just talking about the “flower power” “getting to know your womanly self” hand mirror exercises. I mean scientific anatomical and practical knowledge.
After all these years this “we are a body part” shtick should no longer be art, fer fucks sake.
March 14, 2011 at 4:45 pm
I cast my boobs and framed them in my youth.. Must say they were a nice looking set back then.
March 14, 2011 at 4:58 pm
It’s great and all, but I am slightly tired that empowerment always seems to be associated primarily with the body. Naked boobs, displaying vaginas, showing bare thighs and stomachs etc etc Goodness, womanly strength is more than just that.
What about empowerment through achieving a career, having equal pay, the right to an education, the right to vote, the freedom to play sports or any other hobby, the right to protect against abuse, the ability to achieve equal parternship and genuine support when it comes to raising kids, and so forth, around the world?
(I guess plastering stuff like that on a large wall isn’t as intense as 400 lady parts. I reckon I am just old fashion LOL my apologies for the rant)
March 14, 2011 at 5:13 pm
Career/household balancing isn’t nearly as sexy as a wall of chalk-white vaginas. What are you thinking? Celebrating who we’ve become and not something that was given to us naturally? Pshaw!
Strangely, I have a lot of strong women role models in my life, and I have no idea what any of their cooters look like…
March 14, 2011 at 5:08 pm
I think mine looks like one of those. Where was this when I was 13 and I wanted to know if my snatch looked normal?
March 14, 2011 at 5:08 pm
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March 14, 2011 at 7:49 pm
That is epic! And you should probably let everyone know that you’re the artist.
March 14, 2011 at 5:28 pm
You know, I like my bajingo, but really? I don’t want to look at a wall full of them. To each his own I guess. By the way, thanks for the word bajingo. I had never heard it before and it is now the only word I use to describe my lady bits.
March 14, 2011 at 5:29 pm
I’m gonna get me one of those plaster kits and jar of dead bees. I’ll create a OOAK work called Royal Jelly Bajingo.
March 14, 2011 at 10:29 pm
Royal Jelly Bajingo Wash?
March 15, 2011 at 12:32 am
No…a plaster cast of my cooter with dead bees pushed into the plaster before it dries…just Royal Jelly Bajingo.
March 14, 2011 at 5:38 pm
I’m not touching this wall of twat with a ten-foot pole.
March 14, 2011 at 6:11 pm
Twat did you say?
March 14, 2011 at 6:36 pm
Say twat? FIRST!
March 14, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Am I the only one who stared at this for a long time picking which one matches me? Odd impulse.
I for one had no idea what other people’s vulvas looked like until recently. When that Pam & Tommy Lee video came out, I was just traumatized by her lack of any vulva… she had only a crevice, no fatty lump, no lips, no clit, NOTHING (like the one 3 down and 3 from the right) and it really freaked me out. I thought it meant she was a former dude who had the “no frills package” (I swear no pun intended) installed.
Then a coworker harrassed me one day when I was about 25. He asked if I had an innie of an outtie, and I flashed him my navel & he said, “No, in your area” and I had no clue what he was talking about. I was traumatized again that day when he explained that he liked them “to dangle a lot so you can gargle it & it’s like eatin a raw oyster” See? I was so shocked I still recall his exact words, LOL!
I TOTALLY could have benefitted from seeing this when I was a teen.
March 14, 2011 at 5:59 pm
No, I did it too.
March 14, 2011 at 6:31 pm
i totally did that too
March 14, 2011 at 7:12 pm
kat, unless you worked in the sex industry that remark should have gotten your co-worker reprimanded or fired. I hope you reported him rather than encouraging him.
March 15, 2011 at 9:15 am
I need a mirror to find one that matches me and right now I’d probably lose my job if I attempted to find my vulva twin. People can see inside my office. I’d better wait til I’m home but I really am curious to see if I truly am unique. I know mine has changed over the years (thanks, daughter!) but I’m not going to lose any sleep over it. Husband doesn’t seem to mind nor do I really care about his slightly enlarged gut.
March 15, 2011 at 6:26 pm
@Victoria It was in a printing factory- a very male-dominated trade, and this was by FAR not the worst thing I ever experienced there. At least he was just being goofy and not trying to hurt my feelings or reputation like some others there. The only thing that bothered me about this conversation was the surprising info he imparted. I work in another “men’s” job now. I believe the best way to fit in is to do good work, show a thick skin, have some good comebacks ready for if somebody’s mean… complaining only gets you ostracized.
March 14, 2011 at 5:50 pm
I remember seeing an artist profiled in “The Perfect Vagina” who was casting – wonder if this is the same person? The movie is about labiaplasty, apparently quite a growing industry in England especially among the teen set. I do think it can help to see how different you are supposed to be, especially when plastic surgery and the like are so common.
Interesting thought too – people always go to ‘africa’ and the like for circumcising women, yet in the US and other such countries people are convinced to do very similiar things themselves- so which is worse? There is vaginal rejuvenation, rehymenation, labiaplasty, etc.
March 14, 2011 at 6:14 pm
I’d say the removal of the main nerve/pleasure center in your genitals without your consent, painkillers, or medical equipment is worse.
March 14, 2011 at 6:31 pm
victorya-
You are missing one very crucial distinction here: Vaginal rejuvenation, rehymenation, labiaplasty –whatever you may feel about them– are procedures that a grown woman chooses for herself. They are aesthetic changes performed by surgeons, undertaken by women who want to effect a change in their appearance.
Circumcision is very different. This is the forced removal of the clitoris, of the woman’s pleasure and femininity. Sometimes they even sew the labia closed, to be opened on a bride’s wedding night. NO woman chooses this for themselves.
Cosmetic procedures are not for everyone, but they are a thing that one chooses to do.
Circumcision is torture. Torture that is performed to rob women (and girls) of their sexuality. Torture that is performed at the behest of ruthless patriarchies in uncivilized societies.
Other than the fact that both things involve vaginas, I fail to see how these things are “very similar.”
March 14, 2011 at 7:33 pm
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March 15, 2011 at 11:32 am
I can’t imagine where you’re going with this, and don’t care to speculate.
March 15, 2011 at 12:30 am
In 10th grade I did an oral report on genital mutilation…suffice it to say, I never looked at the world the same again.
My teacher told me I didn’t have to give the report, but I decided people needed to know.
I think that would have been a better subject for his wall of vaginas. I don’t care if my cooter is the same as anyone else’s; I’d like women around the world to never have to suffer at the hands of people who think this abuse will stop a girl from “straying.”
March 14, 2011 at 7:32 pm
Wow. You have no idea what ‘valid comparison’ means at all, do you?
March 14, 2011 at 8:18 pm
I’d uh, MUCH rather get my vagina “rejuvenated” than be circumcised. Call me crazy.
March 14, 2011 at 5:58 pm
So, my boyfriend says, “Maybe next this guy can make the Hall O’ Cocks.”
I love him.
March 14, 2011 at 6:10 pm
Honest Hyperboles…
The #1 product was created in a division of where I work. Wonder if I should put that on my work Facebook…
March 14, 2011 at 6:17 pm
I can’t wait until his next installment. I hear he’s naming it “The Great Wall of Goatse”
March 14, 2011 at 6:23 pm
Yeah, I know, “Your vulva is a beautiful flower! Tell it how much you love it while you stare at it in a hand mirror!”
You should be comfortable with your lady business, but I think all you can hope for is that it gives pleasure to you and your boyfriend/girlfriend/sexy pizza delivery boy. It’s not winning any beauty contests.
If you came home and found one on your coffee table, you’d drop a dictionary on it so fast.
March 14, 2011 at 8:09 pm
Brings a new meaning to the term “naked lunch”, eh?
March 15, 2011 at 5:45 am
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March 15, 2011 at 6:51 am
I’d probably pour salt on it.
March 14, 2011 at 6:27 pm
I just wasted 15 minutes of my employers time reading these comments…NSFW? I live on the edge!
Also the unrelenting bland whiteness of the bajingos makes me feel like IKEA released these (and the name needs umlauts)
March 14, 2011 at 10:48 pm
BaJïngö wall tiles are perfect for your bathroom or living area! Collect the whole set!
March 14, 2011 at 6:45 pm
wha..? No beestaches? We don’t need no stinkin’ beestaches!
March 14, 2011 at 6:59 pm
Now all I can think of is someone shaving their pubes into a mustache.
May 19, 2011 at 11:15 pm
now i want to X-D
March 14, 2011 at 7:07 pm
This gives a whole new meaning to getting something shoved in your Crafthole.
March 14, 2011 at 7:09 pm
Judy Chicago did it 35 years ago and did it SO much better! Hers were on fine china plates! I still have the poster of this dinner party! Go Judy!
March 14, 2011 at 7:22 pm
well. That certainly took the “curious” out of “bi-curious” for me.
March 14, 2011 at 7:31 pm
Remember! Obsessing over your twat is what makes you a ~*real woman*~! Who cares about women, their opinions, their contributions, or their struggles when there are genitals to focus on as the ultimate defining characteristic? You aren’t a person, silly girl — you’re a vulva transportation system, and don’t you forget it!
March 14, 2011 at 7:58 pm
It’s really kind of surprising how much my opinion of this piece changed when I realized the artist was male (“Jamie” can go either way, after all). From “meh, more boring pseudo-feminist vaginocentric BS” to “wow, wonder how many restraining orders he has?” That’s an art piece in itself.
March 14, 2011 at 8:11 pm
Yes, Hannibal, but which one?
March 14, 2011 at 8:13 pm
i think it’s beautiful.
March 14, 2011 at 8:40 pm
God. Dammit.
Enough with the fucking Pussy Pride. I am more than a vulva, and frankly, I don’t see the need to “beautify” aside from washing. I don’t wax, I don’t vajazzle, I don’t have piercings there, and I’m not going to shave my pubic hair into a goddamn mustache.
Women should be celebrated for who they are, not for their body parts.
March 14, 2011 at 11:39 pm
Would a wall of Functional MRI prints showing women thinking be too radical? Here’s Maya Angelou’s brain as she wrote a poem. Here’s Helen Mirren reciting a Shakespeare sonnet. Scientists could talk about their research (I’m trying to think of things you could do in an MRI).
March 15, 2011 at 12:07 am
I know what this needs! They all need to be singing “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” In harmony.
March 15, 2011 at 1:19 am
I feel like everyone who does art like this is just trying to make up for the 10,000 years worth of ancient penis’s that are out there. seriously, almost everything in the ancient art world are all cocks or metaphors for them.
its really just penis envy.
I make art and casting shit is cool but i’m not about to wall paper a room with my own vag because it’s “interesting”. I kinda hope someone casts tits and asses next because it would piss off all the vagina crafters.
just putting that out there.
March 15, 2011 at 3:48 am
All this labiaplasty talk is making me sick! What is next? Asshole reconstruction?
March 15, 2011 at 7:41 am
anal bleaching?
March 15, 2011 at 11:16 am
Ever heard of hemorrhoid surgery?
March 15, 2011 at 4:54 am
um…. they are not VAGINAS they are VULVAS
is Vulva not hipster?
March 15, 2011 at 5:11 am
I know I’m late to the party on this one, but I think the artist needs to expand to different media and male genitalia for practical home usage.
Who wouldn’t adore a kleenex box cozy topped with a vulva. Just pull out the kleenex and call it the “Magician’s Assistant”
How about the vulva as a towel holder in the bathroom? Image you mother trying to push the corner of a hand towel into a little squeezee thing surrounded by vulva? Or a soap dispenser shaped like cock and balls? Squeeze the balls and soap comes out the top. Simple, classic, beautiful, empowering.
March 15, 2011 at 6:34 pm
I want to buy all of those things! Hilarious!
March 15, 2011 at 5:42 am
Oh God, Brighton, WHY? Why must you be so full of c*nts?
March 15, 2011 at 6:22 am
interesting how the guy in the photo is kind of standing waaaay back
March 15, 2011 at 6:50 am
The voyeur in me really really wants to go. Sorry, Killer. I’m not going to wear it on a necklace or a t-shirt or go to a vag-pride event, but damn I want to see this.
March 15, 2011 at 7:26 am
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March 15, 2011 at 7:39 am
Really, guys? This is really depressing. This is supposed to be an exhibition that’s helping to get past the whole “that’s creepy” or “not meant to be seen” factor society has pushed on women.
By the way, that woman on the documentary who did this and decided not to cut herself up decided that because she saw herself from an outside perspective.
Normally I like Regretsy, because it makes fun of people trying to make a quick buck by fucking others over, but this is just shitty.
March 15, 2011 at 11:15 am
We also like taking the piss out of artists who are suffering from an overdose of hubris. This guy clearly qualifies. Just look at it that way.
March 15, 2011 at 5:30 pm
Seriously.. What artist isn’t? There has to be a bit of ego in art, otherwise no artist would show anyone any of their art.
March 15, 2011 at 6:48 pm
We stare at genitals every day here so don’t tell us we’re squeamish! We’re nonplussed by this installation because it’s (no pun intended) not very deep, and because it tries to fight a fight that was over decades ago. It’s creator likely wants people to giggle a bit, learn what shapes are out there, talk about women’s lib… which is what we ARE doing. So please can the condescention.
March 15, 2011 at 7:54 am
I’m split down the middle about this one!
On one hand, This entire concept is done to death and part of a clinically kitschy aesthetic. I don’t get vulva or penis pride brigades. It’s a body part which I personally had no say in building. Though I guess I do have a long term maintenance contract on it. My vulva is like my ears or my elbow.
On the other hand, I think it’s fascinating to see varied shapes of the human body. I love nudists. Adored the film ‘Breasts: A Documentary.’ I saw that when I was 16. And it made me feel unbelievably, profoundly OK about my own pair. It just never had to do with “Organ Pride boyeee!” More like a joy of being alive, fleshy, and accepting that so are we all!
So Mr cutting-edge-artist, my recommendation is to go stick your own tackle in some plaster of paris and have a good long think about what it is you’re really trying to do.
March 15, 2011 at 9:43 am
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March 15, 2011 at 6:51 pm
I do like what you say… my vulva is no more significant a part of me than my ear or elbow!
But I REALLY like your “split down the middle” comment! Biggest laugh of my day! XOXO
March 18, 2011 at 10:28 pm
THIS. Actually DO something to be proud of instead of simply declaring that things we had no say in make us special.
Our weekly girl’s night always starts with rants about men, entitlement, patriarchy, and glass ceilings (but our group isn’t even in the metaphorical building). All valid observations, inevitably followed by “I am woman, hear me roar” and tearful testaments of how empowering it is to be a woman.
NEWS FLASH: if you can remember all the way back to the beginning of the conversation a few seconds ago, people assuming their gender made them special was what started the whole problem in the first place. Ending discrimination means we have to stop doing it too. Switching sides won’t fix the problem, unless it’s really revenge you want – which is fine, just don’t be a coward and try to pass it off as equality.
Who you are inside matters. The type of plumbing you have inside your pants, not so much.
March 15, 2011 at 9:40 am
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March 15, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Wow. How sad that you hate the human body that much.
March 15, 2011 at 6:53 pm
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March 15, 2011 at 9:58 am
Row 1, Column 3: Genital Warts.
Go ahead and neg me, but that’s what those are; poor woman.
It’s one variety of the human papilloma virus, or HPV. The visual warts seen here are most likely not the type that lead to HPV related cancer. It is a contagious STD that can be transmitted even in the absence of visual symptoms.
Don’t go looking for photos. Some things can not be unseen. The plaster casting is as non-nauseating as it gets.
That’s your STD lesson for today.
March 15, 2011 at 6:41 pm
That’s what I thought first too! But then I noticed the symmetry of them and a light came on: PIERCINGS! Of course! Phew! Although with a quarter of Americans being afflicted with HPV or herpes (I tune out the TV ads but kinda hear them a bit, so I may be remembering wrong) perhaps showing a few blemishes on this wall would be accurate. Now THAT would be bringing something people are ashamed of out into the light.
March 15, 2011 at 1:07 pm
I think the vagoos should be singing something. How about “It’s a Small World”? Diversity of cooters, yet somehow unity and commonality.
March 15, 2011 at 1:27 pm
Two thoughts.
First, none of these chachis look particularly HAPPY. What is a happy chachi, you ask? I have no idea, but those vulvas are not happy. I suspect the plaster has something to do with it.
Second, those are vulvas, not vaginas.
Okay, three thoughts.
Third, if this is about acceptance, why are they all shaved? I have no issues with shaving but it’s not exactly how we were made, ya know? I understand that it might have interfered with the plaster process, but still.
March 15, 2011 at 3:56 pm
As Elliot once said on Scrubs, bajingos always look sad to me.
March 18, 2011 at 10:23 pm
When doing casting you need to put a release agent – vaseline works fine – on any hair you don’t want to lose when you pull the casting off. This sort of slicks down the hair, and since he was specifically trying to get vulva impressions he ‘slicked’ it out of the way.
If you see the way they make casts of someone’s head, for special effects in a movie or something, they always come out looking like they had no hair, eyebrows, or eyelashes. This is because they put on a bald cap and put release on the eyebrows and eyelashes.
It’s not about acceptance, or The Man Holding Us Down, or the evils of porn, or body image issues, or any other ideological motive, as seductive those ideas might be for people to latch onto at first. It is simply so they can get the casting off of the model.
March 15, 2011 at 4:04 pm
March 15, 2011 at 4:52 pm
IT CAN’T BE UNSEEN
March 16, 2011 at 3:37 pm
EEEeewwww!!!!!!! gross
March 16, 2011 at 5:12 am
my friend’s dad did this in 2008… he didn’t cast them in plaster… he sculpted them out of clay. I had a really good time making friends with my best mate’s dad for 5 hrs with my legs spread wide…
http://cuntsthemovie.com/2009/02/new-greg-taylor-exhibition-cunts-and-other-conversations/
March 16, 2011 at 10:07 am
I really do find it fascinating—I have lived for this many years around a whole family of women and never really gotten to see how unique female genitalia can look. (and if what the one post says is true, I can see how many of the women would have already decided that he was safe to have sex with before letting him get close to them that way)
March 16, 2011 at 10:11 am
Are they really all young punani? Some look like maybe not.
Y’all know about Cynthia Plaster Caster, right? (who did this with rock star’s penii?)
March 16, 2011 at 11:03 am
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March 16, 2011 at 11:42 am
It still beats fucking Banksy.
March 16, 2011 at 3:35 pm
Girl in blue scarf, says, ” I know that one.”
March 17, 2011 at 1:43 am
I took part in this and am one of the casts. I didn’t shave anything, thankyou very much! Nobody was required to change anything at all and it was completely voluntary. I did it because I’d met Jamie before, he’s a genuinely lovely guy and I was curious in having a go. There was nothing pervy about it, it was quite a laugh (flipping cold!!) and he was totally professional. The result was wierd though; even though it’s your body, you do feel like you’re seeing yourself properly and objectively for the first time and it does feel empowering so sorry to all those who don’t possibly see that it could. I was surprised by how much more confident I felt about myself afterwards. As for ‘it’s all been done before’…well yes, nudity and genitals have been around in art for a couple of years now, haven’t they…..?! And Jamie totally realises they’re vulvas and not vaginas…he just thought – as did we all – that ‘Great Wall Of Vagina’ sounded funnier.
March 17, 2011 at 6:46 pm
I can’t believe no one has called it Stoneminge or Mingehenge yet.
March 20, 2011 at 2:13 pm
I don’t see this as vagina pride so much as an educational piece (whether the artist intended it that way, or not). I think the proof is in the fact that plastic surgery for your labia exists. Some women really don’t get it. I didn’t get it as a young woman (sheltered/naive).
I think both sexes could benefit from a piece like this.
The mustaches are a welcome addition for me. Makes this all the more poignant.
March 25, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Yay, this is in my city! (Yes, the city I own.)
I’ll definitely be an attending most of the festival, so I hope I don’t miss out on this vagstravaganza!
March 26, 2011 at 4:58 pm
With Mustaches (yep, u ROCK HK!) certainly makes up for all the (unexpected) Penis Art hanging on walls at Claremont Graduate School so-called exhibits…
March 29, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Oh no… totally reminds me of one of my art teacher’s “Installations”:
http://web.me.com/j.g.dialogueproject/karenbaldner/Installations.html#16
(Scroll down)
April 4, 2011 at 1:00 pm
“Doesn’t look like mine; doesn’t look like mine; doesn’t look like mine; nothing like mine; the polar opposite of mine; hm, looks a little bit like mine; doesn’t look like mine; holy batman, that one looks like it has balls.”
It is kinda empowering tbh…
April 5, 2011 at 9:12 pm
Anyone know where I can see photos of all 10 panels? It’s sort of a hobby of mine. I doubt the show will come to Charlotte, NC (USA).. so I’ll be missing out on viewing the real panels. Would like to match up (amateur .. scientific research) .. pairs .. or matches .. of similar types. I believe there are only a limited number of body types .. including muffs. Would like to compare and contrast.
October 3, 2011 at 1:00 am
Old entry, but…
I had never given any thought to the appearance of my bajingo until I came upon Regretsy. This must be some modern thing.
Of course, I barely know what mine looks like apart from casual interaction. I don’t feel a need to, any more than I need to know what the inside of my nose looks like or a bunch of other things. It’s there and it does its thing, and whatever. I don’t see a need to have a “relationship” with it.
November 19, 2011 at 5:28 am
Great job Jamie! You created a peace for the history. Those vaginas will live forever!