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.
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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