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| Title |
“Lingam” |
| Date | 2008-02-03 |
| Method | Software |
| Original Size | 1483 × 2400 px |
| Online Size | 742 × 1200 px |
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| Title |
“Lingam (Variant)” |
| Date | 2008-02-04 |
| Method | Software |
| Original Size | 1483 × 2400 px |
| Online Size | 742 × 1200 px |
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A “lingam” is a Hindu symbol, associated with Shiva. It is
quite obviously a phallus symbol, although this connotation is usually of
lesser importance in modern Hinduism. There are different forms for a
lingam, but a usual shape consists of an octagonal prism, a square prism
and a cylinder, stacked atop of each other (as shown here). It is unusual
to put such a lingam in restraints (it is far more usual to locate it
within a “yoni”, another quite obvious symbol), but then,
it’s not that usual to put a phallus in restraints either.
For the reflections on the metal parts, I used a reflection map and had to
try a lot of different pictures to find the right one. As far as I remember,
I used mostly photos from Angkor Vat (where a lot of lingams can be found),
but since you can’t make out anything in these reflections,
it’s mostly about the distribution of black and white in these photos,
and a photo of an alley in Mannheim would have been just as well.
I prefer images of women to images of men (which should be obvious by now),
and mostly, I have am attracted by fantasies with dominant women in charge,
and suffering men. But these two tastes pose quite a conundrum: the
suffering part in a BDSM-scene is usually far more picturesque than the
torturing part. In the first version, I solve this problem by using a
transgendered male sufferer. In the second version, I reinterpret the image
as a portrait of a female keyholder.
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25.8.1990 —
16.11.2009 ·
Jan Thor ·
www.janthor.de ·
jan@janthor.de
