Judith Bernstein’s artworks – True examples of Synchronicity

When I first picked the artist Judith Bernstein on random, I didn’t expect these whole explicit and erotic artworks. In one interview, someone described her artworks as “psychologically overpowering and undeniably in your face” – Hanne Mugaas. The artworks literally “slap in your face” because all she does are about penis and vagina to express her ideas about war, politics, sexism and racism. What influence her are graffiti in men’s bathrooms during her time doing master degree at Yale University. As a feminist and an anti-war activist, she also strongly thinks that paternalistic leadership resulted in the Vietnam War. Her artworks throughout the 70s up till now always come across many controversies about censorship. In my opinion, the censorship shouldn’t be restricted to any form of arts, because after all, it is all the artists’ efforts. Bernstein’s arts also remind me of a coined word by Carl Gustav Jung:

“Synchronicity – the experience of two or more events that are not related causally or likely to occur together by chance, but when experienced do so in a way that their occurring together has meaning”

The unrelated ideas about the bottom parts with politics, at first seemed to not correlate at all, however, make her artworks leave a great impact on viewers and more “relatable”.