The digital graphics “Do you like what you see?” depict pixelated vulvas. The key aspect of this work is the degree of pixelation, where I aimed to find the exact balance in abstracting the shapes so that they hover at the edge of visibility. My intention was to transform a “bold” motif into a gentle abstract scene with minimal intervention. The flesh tones and oval shape emphasize the meditative character of the digital graphics. Pixelation in the age of digital imagery serves as a form of censorship. Today, in digital media, content related to the naturalness of our bodies is censored, while those same bodies are used to promote certain products for profit. In an era of hypersexualization and fetishization of objects and bodies, I consider it crucial to reexamine what we censor and how we do it. In a time of polarization of social norms and conventions, is censorship still necessary and meaningful? Censored spaces leave room for further imagination and sometimes draw more attention to the very thing we intended to conceal. This series of digital graphics raises questions about what is sensational, what offends public morality, whether the rawness of genitalia can be less invasive than the advertisements that surround us, and what the balance is between provocative eroticism and invisibility.



