Having spent years drawing the human figure Gino's gaze is from a male perspective and he offers no apology for that. The Male Gaze theorises that the images made are from a heterosexual male point of view.Representing woman as sexual objects or passive objects to be seen. 

Is it just the male gaze that does this? Gino agues certainly not. The female gaze also does this in the same way. The obvious difference the gender of the gaze but with over 72 different genders currently recognised it is apparent that both the male and female gaze are made up of a myriad of gazes. Looking from the perspective of each gender there will always be accusations of inequality. The gaze is not the real issue, it is the politic and ferment that come with each perspective.  The "Love of Looking" or the "agent of female empowerment" is the male versus female argument. The worse excesses of the male gaze are balanced against the entitlement of female ownership of the female being gazed at. 

What is the entitlement of the female gaze? is a question Gino asks. Offering arguments that say respect, truth and collaboration when drawing the human figure allows a two way exchange. Creating real narratives with human connections rather than ones held up as tarnished objections.  Drawing the female figure is fraught with charges of right and wrong. Deciding which becomes a personal choice but any depiction that relies on a lack of cooperation or adverse pressure is very wrong, whether it be through a male or female gaze. 

The Male and Female Gaze Impact the Human Condition

"Drawing the nude has been my lifelong experience helping me to understand emotions, where they came from and how they are expressed. The construct we call the body is enormously variable how it works and how it is constructed is full of complex gesture and movement. Being able to document this variety is more than any person could expect to achieve in a lifetime.  Increasingly the complexities of this are the surgical and remodelling procedures available to humans' to reconstruct their physical bodies. As humans are given growing choices to reengineer their bodies.  Where will this lead?  Especially in a Posthuman world.

Ideas of beauty and the images promoting shape and size promote the way society judges what is right and wrong. These judgements create huge deficits in human' confidence with lasting feelings of shame, anxiety and depression. The male gaze and the female gaze are both inextricably linked to these judgements. Conditioning the gaze and leaving a lifelong legacy of social isolation for many.

What is this for? and Who benefits? What is normal? Da Vinci studied the instrumental human figure trying to understand its physical working. His reason to understand its physical working as created by nature. Gino has spent a lifetime doing this and looks to understand the human purpose for reengineering the physical working of the human figure. He expresses ideas that seek to inspect if this force is used to replace nature, increasing reverence for science promoting it to the status of God.