Saturday, April 7, 2007

"The Taboo" - Click the image to see a larger version


This image is beautiful done by Shahrukh Kazmi, a dear friend of mine. It is indeed very unfortunate that Shahrukh is moving out his place or else he would have been posting it. The theme of image is "Dangers of Abuse" in our societies. This image does not cater to only one part of all but it tends to show how we are unable to solve this common issue world over. Women in all societies are being targeted for pleasure; dirty pleasures. During those pleasure, the victim gets more than just getting 'hurt'.

The counter-theme of theme of project is "Menaces of AIDS", AIDS is destroying our societies. It is estimated that every 6.4 seconds, one person gets infected with AIDS. India is high alert for this epidemic and South Africa saw 1 percent decrease in their population due to AIDS. The situation in Pakistan is unclear.

Now how this picture has two themes. If you clearly see the right side, there is a girl embedded with hands approaching and she is scared from them. Moving right, we see a girl and a guy going into some action; you can clearly notice that there is forceful intensity. Last now the least there is a mask which represents that 'Taboo' and 'Society'. The society is looking upon the taboo. If you see the image from right to left, the hands try to molest the girl and she gets raped where as if you see the image from left to right, the couple went into action and the girl gets infected with AIDS and society pulled away from her.

This is my views on the image, kindly share yours as well.