Dromsjel

Love Me Tender

Love Me Tender is a commentary piece about art censorship and morality, themes that run heavily throughout my work.
'Morality has aesthetic standards'- is something that Nietzsche said that
has always resonated with me. 'You kill a cockroach you're a hero, kill a butterfly, a villain.
I thought of this quote when creating this piece and how slowly, societies moral compass has been again swayed by the grind of art censorship.

We are being told daily, subtly, what is bad art, and what is good art. What is accepted, what is not. Iask myself always, who is telling us, and why?
The symbolism and composition of Love Me Tender is a surreal and complex view of social media influencing societies moral compass.

The models in my work genitalia has been hidden by a sensitive content sign. The IG like counters melting from the mind symbolise what we like to see, but aren't allowed to like.

A reflection of the experience I encounter daily as an artist, and you as a viewer.
Over the last year I have become one of the most censored Artists on
social media platforms, but I will not conform. Only dead fish swim with the river.
With Love Me Tender, I continue to push against the current of art censorship and hypocritical moral standards pushed upon my work and invite you to do so too.

 

dromsiel / Pierre Schmidt