nancy jones

I work with ideals of feminine beauty and cultural expectation through media codes. I decode this specific language by playing with the codes to create new illusions and combinations based on those specific ideals. My inspiration is with studying the evolution of ideals of cultures over time. I work between the differences of symbols and stereotypes. My work depicts feminine portrayals with cultural expectations, identity and gender constructs. I pull from the world of advertising, the Internet, and technology industries to produce narratives in various mediums. My work depicts feminine portrayals, identity and gender constructs. I pull from the world of advertising, the internet, and the technology industries to produce narratives creating my unique content with found material. The women in my work create a different kind of viewing experience that intensifies the importance of the gaze found throughout my work. These style combinations and codes reference rituals and ideals. The relationship between images and how they penetrate us with persuasive visual codes in a range of constructs, prescribe normative behaviors and form our ideas of identity. Distilling the imagery down to stylistic forms, results in dialects of visual language. As a visual philosopher and multimedia artist rendering how our relationship with the image penetrates us with persuasive visual codes, I work to establish a field to motivate reflection as freedom from conditioning. My multimedia production embodies visual processes within recontextualized images from consumer culture, thereby establishing commentary on the power of looking and reflection to influence popular opinion.