Three Botanical Specimens

Most cosmetics have plant extracts added in the manufacturing process. Women use these products to enhance their appearance and some to attract male interest. This interest encourages the male gaze, a Cindy Sherman concept, the perception of women as nothing more than a sexual object. The selling of cosmetics becomes nothing more than the selling of sex. I drew three different sections of a rose, the reproductive part, the stem, and the pedals to symbolize a vagina. I then packaged a vagina sculpture as a stab of meat. On the package, I placed a label. However, the label does not contain nutritional information but it contains estimations of what women can get from sex.