Artist Jillian Mayer Photoshops Her Face Onto 400 Nude Selfies

You may not have heard of artist/activist Jillian Mayer before right this minute, and don't feel bad if that's the case because I hadn't either. Mayer was recently profiled on The Huffington Post (link below), in preparation for her latest art project in which she photoshopped her face onto over 400 nude selfies of other women.

In case you were wondering, it was indeed The Fappening that served as her inspiration, and after stumbling upon a dark world of nude selfie tutorials, she's turned the whole endeavor into a commentary on modern women or something. Who knows? I'm too distracted by all the boobs.

"I started doing a lot of reading about them and I found a website giving tips to young girls for taking nude selfies. The tip that I found most interesting was to not show your face. Basically, that you should strip your nude body of its identity and send it to someone you want to sexualize you. I thought that's interesting and funny but also really terrible. Obviously they're trying to protect young girls with this article, but it's also preparing them for the fact that they will be betrayed."

"When these girls are taking these nude selfies, it's interesting because they're almost empowered. They're the director, they're the model, the editor and then the delivery vessel. They've created this whole thing and then the minute it's released, it becomes this item of vulnerability."

"That's when I got the idea to start collecting the images and then replacing my face with the original girls'. I felt like if I could become all of these girls in a way it's like universalizing the nude selfie."

"I was looking for a diverse array of women. I got them from revenge porn websites, Tumblr, Google Images, Reddit. I want these images now to creep back in and mix up with the originals. I have a website, 400nudes.com, that serves as the bank of the images with no art information. These photos can now make their way through the internet and show up when people look for this sort of stuff."

Via The Huffington Post