{"id":17758,"date":"2012-02-11T21:06:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T21:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=17758"},"modified":"2012-02-11T21:06:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T21:06:12","slug":"the-sex-behind-the-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=17758","title":{"rendered":"The Sex Behind The Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ld50mfW-BCM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s one thing that can be said of art and fashion is that it\u2019s all derivative. That is in no way a derisory comment it is an observation on the fact that all creative people are made up of their experiences, where else do they get their creative inspiration? The truly talented creative personality takes their experiences and uses them to express themselves in new and original ways.<br \/>\nBearing that in mind I have to say I\u2019ve noticed a trend within the visual arts recently that I think originates in the fetish scene.<br \/>\nGas masks.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s just me but look at the video above from Nero. Yes the video, although I like Nero in this case it\u2019s the visuals that caught my interest. The bad guys have gas masks. Now watch this, from Sucker Punch, more bad guys, more gas masks.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KrIiYSdEe4E\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not so much that the guys wearing the gas masks are \u201cevil\u201d, it\u2019s the dehumanising effect the mask has on the wearer. I don\u2019t have a thing for gas masks, I think they are different, fun, striking and provocatively extreme but I don\u2019t have a fetish for them. What I do think they do is to give a new sensory experience to the wearer and make them something other than themselves, abstract, odd, in fact a lot of things that a mask does but just more extreme.<\/p>\n<p>Visually I love them and I can track this back to my liking for the artist H R Giger who most people will know from his work on Alien and Alien 3. His work is awash with industrial and visceral images or creatures both humanoid and reptilian who often wear goggles, masks and appear to be becoming part of a machine or twisted non-human biological entity. In the more extreme images their bodily orifices are probed and invaded by various mechanistic and organic tentacles; or is it that they are exuding them?<br \/>\nTake a look at his work and you\u2019ll see what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that once you\u2019ve seen Giger\u2019s work you are changed by it. Even if you do not like it he\u2019s one of those artists who leaves an impression, and if you have a tendency towards the gothic, mechanistic, apocalyptic and macabre you will probably love him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there\u2019s one thing that can be said of art and fashion is that it\u2019s all derivative. That is in no way a derisory comment it is an observation on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=17758\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,35,25],"tags":[4235,3803,1290],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17759,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17758\/revisions\/17759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}