Transformation Image

         In my image transformation, I examined a frame from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; the scene in which Gaston is singing and rejoicing in his buff, rough masculinity. He prides himself in his muscle size, spitting range, and exclusively antler decorations in his home and bar. Of course, the rest of the town’s men look up to Gaston for the same things (and if they don’t, they fear him for it all), and the village girls fawn over and swoon for his overwhelmingly macho persona.

           I remixed the image to give Gaston’s “man cave” a brighter and more feminine touch: even overtly so. It’s amazing how the context in which Gaston in sitting in now makes his body language and pose more dancer-like and feminine than it was in the original frame.

Latterell states that technology does not necessarily mean only machines; technology can also include "all manner of human-made objects and devices…because human cultures use a range of objects, skills, and organizations to “’modify nature to meet their needs and wants,’ then skills and organizations can be considered technologies, too.” I am translating Gaston’s body language and decorations displayed here as ways he is “modifying nature to meet his needs and wants:” particularly in the way that his hunting trophies mark his need to display his masculinity. 

-Alicia