POLLY NOR
Do you like the Devil? Do you like women? And do you like devilishly kinky women and satirical cartoons? So we guess you'll love Polly Nor's designs! This 26-year-old Londoner, who grew up in an artistic environment (her father is a designer) pursued this path by studying at the London College of Communication. What she brings new to the world of illustration is her own analysis of women's behavior towards social media in the 21st century. His drawings, in an inimitable and corrosive style, finally describe what we expected: an acidic and barely exaggerated "real life". She stages young women in an intimate and unvarnished daily life - often less attractive than what we want to show others, because her characters want to be more preoccupied by their emotions than by their physique; they don't try to please anyone. The illustrator thus offers an alternative vision of the "perfect woman" too often rehashed on Instagram or Snapchat.
Also influenced by her dreams and the feelings they convey, Polly Nor concentrates her talent in the vivid transcription of her complex feelings. The appearance of the Devil becomes a connection between the surrealist and the realist, it symbolizes more a frustration, manifests emotions or even the ambiguity present in each of us: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, this inner duality where our primitive and brutal impulses and the self-control of our tamed personality. Polly Nor succeeds in accurately portraying the whole question of the "social mask": because of the influence of social networks, women now feel trapped in their image, because they must constantly maintain or improve it. Each of Polly Nor's illustrated scenes could be accompanied by provocative slogans "Yes I'm a masturbating girl, and fuck you" or "Here you go, looks like I'm not who you think I am".
You like Devil? You like women? But do you like devilish women in satiric drawings? We guess that you'll enjoy Polly Nor's illustrations! This young 26 years-old artist comes from London, and grew up in an artistic environment (her father was a designer), she followed this way studying at the London College of Communication. She brings a brand new and fresh vision of the 21st century woman, analyzing her behaviors due to social media. With her very own drawing-style, authentic and corrosive, Polly describes what we're not expecting to see: a "real life", with no make-up, and kind of acid one. She draws different women in banal everyday-life scenes, to make contrasts with their "wonderful life" on Instagram. She told it for People of Print Magazine:
"I'm bored of looking at images of women where their sole purpose is to look attractive. I enjoy drawing my characters at home, alone in their rooms with nobody else to please. I want to focus on how they feel and what they are thinking rather then how they look. "
By the way, she proposes an alternative point of view of the supposed "perfect woman" as seen on Instagram or Snapchat.
Also influenced by weird dreams, Polly focuses on the way she will transfer her feelings into illustrations. Moreover, the Devil is taking an important part in her work, as a connexion between realism and surrealism; he symbolizes girls' frustrations, emotions or the double-meaning inside all of us: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, this inner duality where all our primitive and rough pulsions are facing off our socialized personnality. She succeeds in representing the problem of the "social mask": because of the increasing influence of social media, women feels more and more prisoners from their appearance, they always have to improve it. Each illustration could be untitled with a provocative slogan like "Yes, I'm a girl who likes to masturbate, and I fuck you" or "You don't know who the fuck I really am"
Written by Aali Alien