Artist Spotlight: Audrey Jones
In the process of developing this piece I discovered Audrey Jones’ Tinder
Diaries, in which she similarly collected many chat conversations she had had
on the app Tinder, and used them to
create cartoons, which satire the way that men communicated through the online
dating medium. The ‘Tinder Diaries’ consist of a series of small single-image cartoons,
in a style heavily inspired by the political cartoons found in many newspapers
or online. They feature a simplistic usage of colour and line, with minimal
shading. The cartoons usually consist of two figures, always with a rendition
of the profile picture of the other user, (Bottom left in example no.1, Above)
and another figure to represent Jones. The Figure that represents Jones’s side
of the conversation is often heavily exaggerated, and devoid of gender, instead
favouring to depict an almost inhuman creature. This inhumanity could be self
expression of how distant the version of ourselves we portray online is from
‘the real version of ourselves’.
The use of just the one image, rather than the use of multiple images to represent the narrative of the studies, and then collaging the images together is effective because it portrays the frequency of these sort of messages from men, to women. It hammers home the amount that women have to put with, because of what is deemed to be acceptable online, whilst we hide behind our screens and our profiles.
The use of just the one image, rather than the use of multiple images to represent the narrative of the studies, and then collaging the images together is effective because it portrays the frequency of these sort of messages from men, to women. It hammers home the amount that women have to put with, because of what is deemed to be acceptable online, whilst we hide behind our screens and our profiles.
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