For the fifth brief, me and members of my group (Rada, Shavonne) decided to work with a collection of stamps issued by Finnish postal service in 2014 featuring illustrations from a Finnish homoerotic artist Tom of Finland.
To start the process, we begun exploring the stamps, researching on the V&A website and taking notes. We had an active discussion over our opinions and positions.
For my position, I was not surprised that the idea coming from one of the North European countries, as it is viewed by Czech as a developed, modern part of Europe. In my opinion, Czech could potentially once see this as a possibility, but in the future, maybe a few years. I personaly think the timing of Finland’s project was a bit inconvenient for the rest of the Europe, and that it came a bit “too soon”. I think the time for such project would be now as my generation is the loudest and keen to fight for change and raise the topic on social media.
I wondered what the “affect/reaction” would be if such stamps were produced now? In 2023 when people openly talk and share topics of sexuality and gender.
Find the whole process below:
