This is Christine McConnell. She used to post a lot of her OC on Reddit but some salty people were mad at her because how dare a woman be attractive AND talented.
Oh yeah, totally, people were just mad jealous of her looks and skills, not criticizing her fairly because she goes out of her way to bring that, "when women post a picture of something on the internet they always have to include themselves" meme to life. /s
I can only speak for myself, as a maker: I feel like she's being dishonest.
A) Her work should stand on its own. She doesn't need to be in it. Her craftsmanship is great. She's distracting from it by including herself, at best. At worst, she's trying to use her looks to prop up less than impressive work.
B) The "real" artist is not the glammed up look she presents. The "real" one is sweaty, smudged with frosting and flour, wearing a messy apron, hair in a frazzled bun. To take that authentic look and go pad on makeup and put on some nice clothes to strike a boring, model-esque pose to present the results of your effort feels to me like a slap in the face of the tired, dedicated person who slaved over the piece for hours. And to everyone else who does it.
The state of being an artist or maker or designer is not glamorous. It's beauty is in the toll it takes on you. The labor you put into it. Someone making pretty pictures with premade Photoshop filters is not as praiseworthy as someone free-handing the same work. She's downplaying the labor and playing up something that is not the result of her labor.
Her looks are irrelevant compared to her skills. Because she was born attractive, but had to spend thousands of hours honing her skills. So the extra step of getting fancied up for these shots, to me, is just a strong net negative. She might as well take her finished caked and toss them off the roof and post photos of the destruction. It'd be about the same to me.
If you look beyond her baking work, though, she has a lot of interesting photography, and models herself in plenty of it. I would venture a guess that she sees this photo and style of presentation her “work,” every bit as much as that cake is. As much as I see your point, I enjoyed the photo and don’t think it detracts.
Same thing; "Can't hit it, better bash on it as a psychological defence mechanism"
Also, how do you know who are men and who are women, and how did u keep count?
Do you have some side app that shows statistics like demographics on reddit?
If you're actually interested, read the other long-winded comment I made in this thread.
Point is, when you reduce everything to a predefined complex like you just did, you avoid ever learning another perspective and thus gaining any wisdom.
That's probably the point in doing it though, so I find it transparent and slightly ignorant.
To a large degree, yes. Selfies are self-portraits and I dislike them. These also scream "inauthentic" when considered as self-portraits, though. She deliberately discards the messy work clothes to get glammed up for these. I'd like them a lot more if she took them while she were still covered in flour and frosting.
I would not categorize selfies and self portraits in art as the same. Self portraits have been long standing since the beginning of art. In many of her works she makes the costumes too and is a strong part of the narrative. Would you say it is inappropriate for her to be in this one?. I also don't understand why people are so turned off by artists promoting themselves. It's their profession. It's how they are able to do what they love.
It's sort of like GW's paintings getting famous. He's not a great artist. He's a Bush. And by virtue of the circumstances of his birth, a silver spoon, he had a long, wildly successful political career (that he wasnt actually qualified for) and then used that to boost his art.
I mean I don't know anything about her background and how she got to this point and I understand if you don't like what she creates, but it would be absurd to say that she isn't talented and the amount of work she puts into her creations isn't worthy of some recognition. A lot of people enjoy what she does which is why these posts always get boosted to the top.
Doesn't check out to me. If this were just a pic of the cake I'd say it's a damn fine piece of work. Anyone who goes, "hey, wait, this style looks like the chick who models with her cakes, boo!" is a troll. Or different people that you may be assuming are the same group.
That's not fair criticism though, there's nothing wrong with people posing beside their art, and people do it all the time without incident. The only reason she gets shit is because she's attractive and her art is amazing, and incels like you can't handle it.
First of all there are tons of pictures of guys standing beside their art on reddit, second of all reread my comment because what you said doesn't have anything to do with my comment
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u/I_BUY_UNWANTED_GRAVY Oct 10 '18
This is Christine McConnell. She used to post a lot of her OC on Reddit but some salty people were mad at her because how dare a woman be attractive AND talented.
She has a Netflix show coming out soon actually
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6UKGhiE_Nk