TESTOSTERONE: A Senior Humor or Satire Art Project by Chiara Neyman (2014)

My humor piece is meant to speak out for women in a comical way. I am addressing the relationship between gender and power. Women are generally not seen as bosses, but bitches when they attempt to assert themselves in a professional or social environment. In my illustration, I have taken a photograph of my friend, Ray Uyeda (special thanks to that beautiful little turnip) and dressed her up in a man's facial hair, and stacked her on layers of raw meat with the caption ''100% PURE BEEF.'' I have turned this portrait of a strong woman into a caricature of a man's man. She is all beardy with meat being super manly in an effort to be taken seriously, even though the idea of a manly man BEARDY BEARD MEAT MUSCLES MEAT STEAK POTATOES MAN GUN SHOW BIG CAR MAN is such a joke.

I used Photoshop to create my piece. I started off with a nice, flattering portrait of the lovely Ray Uyeda and using Photoshop took little snips of her hair and pasted them all over her face to make a choppy looking cheesy beard and spiky hair. Next I made everything transparent but her and then placed her/him on a bed of uncooked beef and used the text tool to add my crafty little caption.