Prevent Forest Fires! Hot & Prevent Forest Fires! Cold

by

Cass

ISB | Print | 42.0 x 59.4 cm 

The main inspiration behind these posters were the increasingly elaborate and explosive gender reveal parties that were appearing in the news, one of which caused a forest fire in California. I wanted to critique how ridiculous it was that gender reveal parties were using explosives, and indeed, how the entire concept of a gender reveal party is harmful because of it’s reinforcement of the gender binary, forcing it upon children before they are even born. I decided to communicate this by showing objects shaped like the male and female symbols, each of which was shown to be starting a fire.