unporn artist statement, xtine2003
Under the influence of deconstructivist theory, Moira Gatens writes of the French Feminists, "one of the most important struggles is to engage in the subversion of phallocentric discourses and to foster a language that is able to express the specificity of the feminine."

The Unporn Series is a photographic act of appropriation and revision. In this series, the models of Playboy Magazine who once posed for the pleasure of the viewer's gaze are the artists' material for recombinant image production and aid a transitive approach to seeing pornography. Selected photographs appearing in the soft-core Playboy Magazine are cropped and printed anew on silver gelatin paper by way of digital production processes and the black and white wet lab. During this combination of digital and traditional photographic imaging methods, small and often unseen areas of the set-up for Playboy's original photo session are highlighted and investigated. The visual language of pornography (specific to Playboy Magazine ) is revealed on the silver gelatin prints in this series. The shift in cultural currency is seen in both the cropping of the original images and the final materials used to present the images. The original 8.5 by 11 inch glossy magazine prints are reprinted on16 by 20 inch silver gelatin paper.