masculinity
Stephen Frizza

masculinity

This image was created by me when i was 17. Our art class in high school was given a project to create an artwork on masculinity and femininity in modern society.
Our art teacher was a bit of a feminist so i took a very chauvinist view on the whole project. I made out as though women essentially have fucked up the role of man. To do this I called many farmers until one agreed to let me cut the balls of one of his cows. well i got the balls so the project was set. I did a 6 piece triptych
2 panels one on the top left and one on top right being a womans hands clenching a set of severed testicles with a middle panel being a woman who looks like a dyke tearing up a copy of a book called "the image of man".

below it was a second series with the left and right panels being of a mans hands crushing a beer can and blood running down his arm. the label on the beer can was Victoria bitter being symbolic of female bitterness towards men and the central panel was of a feminine man trying to tear a copy of a book called "the Female eunuch"

My teacher didn't quite know what to make of the series. sadly the series is now lost all except this panel.

I should also comment I was suprised how much resistance there is when using a sharp knife to remove testicles i thought they would come off easy. they dont.
Location
my home
Equipment Used
canon Eos and a 80mm lens
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unknown
Film & Developer
delta 400 in ID-11
Paper & Developer
scan from film
Lens Filter
none
cow bull they both go mooo LOL im not so smart when it comes to animals.
untill not so long ago i thought dolfins were fish and didnt know the difference between horse and donkie .....come to think of it i still dont hehehehe. All i knew was i needed something inhuman with testicles that wouldn't mind me taking them.
 
So you called up farmers and said "I'd like to cut the b@ll$ off of one of your bulls" ?? That's quite disturbing... I think that effect is what you are after though. So how did they pin the bull down while they let you loose with a blade?
 
well i made a shit load of phone calls, got loads of abuse and many hung up on me. bot one laughed called out to his workmates put me on speaker phone and then made me repeat my question. when the laughing stopped the man said sure but u have to come out and get them. and i agreed. thinking i was going out to pick them up. no he meant i was going to remove them. the guy had a thing on his property where there was like 2 metal grates and the animal was sandwiched in between so it couldn't move and then we put these rubber band type things over the balls and i cut between the bands. I think this was to make it less messy. the bull wasn't happy.
 
I may have just given up all desire to visit Australia...
 
I am dumbfounded as to the extent some people go to, just to get a photograph made.
 
This is my 2nd post here. And this is the most self aggrandizing example of total selfishness I've seen. Sorry I don't find it amusing, cute or artistic.
 
They are not large enough to be a full grown pair of bulls balls

Probably from a semi adolescent - farmers castrate them to quieten them down and the animal then puts on a little more weight over the next few months before being sold for meat

If they were a fully grown bulls pair of balls, each one would be larger than the girls fist - maybe even twice as large

Somehow, I never expected to be talking about testicles on APUG

I am sure it was an interesting and challenging portfolio you delivered Stephen

Martin
 
the animal wasnt that old when i cut its bits off and some months later it was going to be eaten.
 

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