#cigaroh

[cigaroh]

http://cigaroh.com/certej-is-mine

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Whilst scrolling across tumbler looking at the art blogs I am following I came across a gorgeously disturbing artist. Her name is not quite apparent but her link to her blog is her blog is here ‘http://cigaroh.com/NEWS-1’. Cigaroh works mainly with charcoal and the image of the female body. She up scales them and attaches objects to the pictures so the audience can interact with the work.

 Her work screams of sexuality and power, in ‘The Girl next door’ A girl can be seen provocatively opening her top, yet she has the power, as she is doing it; forcing the viewer to see what and who she is. The image is sexual in itself, is sexually empowering because the woman in the picture is allowing herself to be seen, she is proud of what she is. She can also be seen to be overly thin; problems with anorexia and body image come into play. She is posing the question of what society questions to be normal. People reject you if you are abnormal in some shape or form. You can’t be too fat, or too thin, be covered in tattoos? She is challenging the public’s perceptiveness of this. The branches that project from the canvas show a desire to be interacted within society; people will try and avoid the branches as they view the work. Same as people avoid someone in the street if they are abnormal is some shape or form.            

Cigaroh’s work reinforces my need and love to draw she has inspired me to draw again, although commercial they are relevant to contemporary art, as we as humans reject things we can’t handle to look at.