The piece has many different components of it including images, paper, color, ink, and lines. The piece features a collage of crying or upset babies that was cut up to fit the four corners of the paper. Blue and purple construction paper was used to balance the overwhelming flesh tones of the babies. The focal point is the center where a larger, crying baby face is pasted on the body of a Victoria Secret model. The background features dripping ink blots or splatters.
The connotative meaning of the piece is that it is meant to represent Jean Baudrillard's quote, "There is no aphrodisiac like innocence." The piece make you feel unsettled and chaotic. It can be a little funny at times. There is nothing more annoying than the shrillness of babies crying so this was meant to put a little humorous twist on that. The piece is chaotic and insane. Babies are the essence of innocence, so to compare them with "aphrodisiac" is a little unsettling. When I first read the quote I was taken aback and thought "was this guy into child pornography?" So I took the quote literally and paired crying babies with a Victoria Secret model. The idealogical meaning is how messed up society's view of "sexy" is. While people should be admiring experience and intelligence, Jean Baudrillard says that "innocence" is sexy.
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