Things with a future tense

"The Navel"

First of all, The navel in my photograph is appeared as a depression(innie) with some hair, of somebody with the honey brown skin. The longer and lusher hair crosses a straight line of the navel and the navel bottom has the most hair comparatively. Some shorter and softer hair are on the belly surface that surrounding the belly button.

Next, the belly button is a scar on the abdomen, and caused by the time the umbilical cord is removed from a new born baby. All placental mammal have a navel and it is fairly noticeable in humans. Due to the fact that navel is close to the sexual organ of lower body, the lusher hair around the navel is considered as part of the sexuality.

Then, the initial frame that applies in this photo is "Cancer inside", which is related to the social issue. The navel is a gateway to the intestines of human body; where a lot of daily operations are done. The intestines' duty is to absorb nutrients for the body but the imbalance of food consumption enhance the possibilities of illness occurred. Since the symptoms of those illness are not very obvious in the early stages, a lot of patients and their closed ones tend to ignore the urgency to seek doctor's advices. And when the germs start taking over their health, the mega alarms have already reached to the final stages of patients' lives...And the power of cancer is massive. Aside from its' attack to the patients' health, it is also the mentally tortures to both the patients and their families.

What's more, people often compare the belly button with on/off switch. It will be so good if people do have a chance to check their intestines once a while with just a press on their navels...They will have better understandings of their health and start minding their eating habits if the digestive operations are shown to their eyes. A lot of patients queue up for the medical treatment in local public hospitals and the demand cannot be satisfied with limited medical resources. Or can all of the patients just throw their whatever illness away with a press? It saves plenty of emotions, time and money; which also seem much more friendly to those who ain't even have enough money for the surgery fees.

Well, there are two new frames discovered. The first new frame is "Women showing off the navel" that shows the cultural issues. Since navels have been considered as part of the sexuality, women showing off the navel was once a taboo in Chinese and Western societies while Indian women tended to show off their belly buttons with traditional clothes Sari. And nowadays, there are countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan, where the women showing off their belly buttons is still forbidden. The new frame raises the possibilities of a few cultural issues: The cultural differences between ancient Chinese, Western and Indian societies, the cultural different between modern societies and the gender studies.

Another frame is "Intimacy between a mother and her new born baby", which concerns about the social issues. The navel is caused by the time the umbilical cord is removed from a new born baby and was the linkage between the baby and his mom. This connection is something more than a physical one and represents the intimacy between a mother and her precious baby. This frame raises a main social issue: Parents' attitudes towards their new born babies. A lot of young irresponsible parents just don't want the baby after they gave birth to him/her and they remove the umbilical cord with a pair of scissors without considering the infection. And in contrast, some other responsible parents are ready for their babies future with umbilical cord blood.

Finally, there are some possible steps, which are able to develop this photographic project. The first idea that comes to my mind is putting more and more photographs of different navels together as a series; in order to enhance the potential of raising different cultural issues. And people are all with very different belly buttons for sure...Or doing some video works of "Talking navels" with V.O will be a nice experiment hopefully...? The following step is researching about the potential issues mentioned above and try to get as much as useful information as possible...And myself will inter-venting during the process of photographing and selecting the materials needed.