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Invites made for in class, using illustrator

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New concept

Event: birthday party

- pass the parcel

- each layer will contain a mixture or desired prizes and cards with questions on them about what you desire

- the parcel will be passed around in a select group while others watch and feel the desire to participate

Experimenting with freezing money

- you can't really see the coin but this could work as being seen as an art work rather than actioning money

- I also think freezing notes would work a lot better and look better on a larger scale but on the other hand might be more easily identifiable as money

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Desire

Desire and auction, clear “display boxes” holding items people desire. We auction them off still in the boxes. Desire is about wanting something and Continuing to want something that’s why the boxes are sealed. They can have it but they never really get it

Auction idea

- freezing items so they have to chip it out and work to get what they desire

Desire

definition - a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen.

Events that celebrate desire or evoke desire

- valentines day

- weddings

- christmas

Desire makes me think of love, lust and longing.

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Desire

# happiness - doing something you enjoy

#money - cash

#freedom - a holiday

#peace - therapy

#confidence - make over

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-caprino/the-top-10-things-people-_2_b_9564982.html

Desire research, What do people desire the most - although they aren't physical they can easily translate into physical items... and be put up for auction...

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ADAD FINAL

Major Work

Concept Statement

To explore gender non binaries I used a series of experiments. I began by thinking about the shape of a bust, a non gendered shape and a vague figure, similar to my first project looking at vagueness to evoke thought from the audience. I wanted to use a bust as it is seen as a silhouette of a figure, no gender will ever be assigned to a bust. My first experiments I wanted to try different materials and methods. I wanted to try methods such as sculpting and sewing, or painting to create a physical final product rather than using illustrator or computer methods which I usually rely on. I found sculpting the Styrofoam was too flimsy and just crumbled not resembling any form. Then I used cardboard to create a set of busts but this just couldn’t come together to create a final major work it felt lacking and unexciting. Finally I wanted to work with the idea of a wall hanging. I experimented with multiple fabrics and colour combinations, continuing with the shape and idea behind the human bust. I thought about how gender is visually identified, through colour and clothing. Women are depicted through stereotypes in pink and in dresses and men, in blue and in long pants. I also thought about how to communicate the delicacy of the topic, I then looked t using bubble wrap but thought this created a less light hearted tone to the work. I used a range of four small scale experiments to find the best way to convey a message about non binaries. Finally I used a white sheer fabric, with ragged edges to enclose a range of colourful busts, representative of gender diversity with the same colour scheme of my first poster, resembling the colours of the gay pride flag. This also being a commentary on sexuality non binaries as well as gendered non binaries. The edges of the sheer fabric have been dyed in food colouring. Half the boarder is died blue and the other half is died pink to represent the stereotypical gender binaries. By enclosing the busts between the dyed fabric, the statement I am making is that gender diverse people feel trapped by the stereotypical gender binaries. The ragged edges are demonstrative of how raw the topic is and how gender stereotypes are old and worn out.

When researching gender non binary art, I stumbled across 'Sleeping Hermaphroditus' a Sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. This really intrigued me and made me think and explore perspective. This is what provoked me to experiment with a wall hanging. I was thinking about perspective and it was only through the process of creating that my experiment developed into a enclosed piece. Originally I wanted to have two perspectives one side being the stereotypical gender binaries and the other being the reality of a gender spectrum. During the creation of the work I realised that it would be more effective for the hanging to be one sided, and hung in front of a window to really see the busts inside and the colours of them in contrast to the white of the outter fabric.

My other inspiration came from Constantin Brancusi's 'Princess X' 1915- 1916. Brancusi believed that he created the essence of a woman but to many people the sculpture was lewd and represented male genitals. This to me was another example of perspective and was representative of non binary art. This sculpture drew on my how I approached the last topic and the use of vagueness but helped me think about the representations of men and women.

Bibliography.

https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/sleeping-hermaphroditos

https://www.artsy.net/artwork/constantin-brancusi-princess-x

http://www.artinsociety.com/the-controversies-of-constantin-brancusi-princess-x-and-the-boundaries-of-art.html

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The previous experiments lead to me use the busts behind a sheet of sheer fabric, enclosed and therefore trapped, with on the outside of the cloth gendered silhouettes of women (pink in dresses) and men (blue).

*sorry I didn't photograph the end product this is during.

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Experimentation

1- I thought I could use a range of colours as I did in my poster to represent diversity of binaries

2- I used bubble wrap to demonstrate the delicacy of the situation

3- I used bust shapes as they don't assign genders

4- I used pink as blue as the most stereotypical representation of gender

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research...

I like how interpretive these works are and how they are thought provoking without being in too serious or in your face.

The both also utilise perspective which could be interesting to help my exploration of binaries.

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Pushing identity into the physical... I don't like it.

Too boring, tried to sculpt a bust out of styrofoam but just crumbled.

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Generation of ideas

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trying to experiment with identity... too similar to poster

I want to try working with physical materials rather than computer, to push this idea further

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ADAD FINAL

I began my exploration of binaries through researching gender and sexuality as well as art binaries such as organic, synthetic, clean and dirty. Andy Warhol's 'piss paintings' helped me to grasp the concept and rebellion against binaries as his investigation into materials refused the binary of cleanliness or dirtiness. Using a mixture of urine and diamonds to produce a beautiful piece of work. This lead continued my research into other more predominate binaries such as gender. ‘Binaries in Disruption’ was an exhibition lead by all LGBTI artists which examines how identity and sex are much more complicated ideas than how they presented in art and society. A piece from this exhibition in which line figures are drawn and a gap is left in place of genitals lead my initial brainstorm. From this stemmed my idea to create line drawings as they hold no gender or sexuality, they are vague and not interpretable. This resulted in my first work, but unfortunately I felt it was boring and lacking intrigue with its overwhelming empty space.

My aspiration to create an intriguing, vibrant poster generated my final design. I started by using block shapes to create two ambiguous figures kissing. By using block shapes with no connection it created a vague picture just as the line drawings did, assigning no gender to the figures and thus exploring both gender and sexuality binaries. For my first draft I filled the page with pastel colour as this an aesthetic I personally enjoy, but to tie together my initial goal, to rebel against gender and sexuality non binaries and celebrate pride, I decided to incorporate the vibrant colours of the gay pride flag and the non binary flag. Ultimately my poster has used two vague figures to force the audience to accept that gender nor sexuality needs to be assigned or questioned to accept that the figures are kissing.

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A2 poster outcome

- its quite pixelated which is disappointing

- I got ride of the shape outlines

- and used a dark background to emphasise the faces

- slightly altered the line work to be more curved in some spots and fixed the line work that wasn’t neat.

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initial brainstorm of ideas

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