Composition II- Piet Mondrian
Skin
There tends to be a correlation of color to ethnicity by people's skin
color. So with Mondrian's choice of colors, I chose to align these colors to
their stereotypical identities in society. For Asian ethnicity it is yellow,
red is Native American (or in this case Indian), and the blue is for white
collar workers, otherwise known as white.
In today's media, there is a lot of
controversy surrounding the subject of skin color. There is the Black Lives
Matter movement that has been spun by white people to All Lives Matter.
However, there is the Asian population that is getting involved on this issue as
well with the All Lives Matter. However, I believe Jane Elliot best explains
this dispute:
“You are not born racist. You are born into a racist society. We learn
to be racist. And like anything else, if you can learn it, you can unlearn it.
But some people choose not to unlearn it, because they're afraid they'll lose
power if they share with other people. Racism is not genetical. It has
everything to do with power. We are afraid of sharing power. That's what it's
all about.”
Elliot continues to explain that even if people in America like to say
there is no racism in our country, those same people are white and don’t have
much experience in seeing or feeling the hatred. The Daily Show host,
Trevor Noah, originally from South Africa, recently put his two cents in on how
and why such discrimination is going on specifically from the white supremacy.
“It seems extremely easy to get shot by police in America, which is not
right. ‘That looks like a bad dude,’ the cop in the helicopter can be heard
saying of Crutcher in the video. What exactly about that man looks bad to you
from all the way up there in your helicopter? He’s not holding a weapon, his
hands are up. He doesn’t even have a hoodie on, I mean, isn’t that the
universal symbol for ‘bad dude’? You can’t tell anything about this man from up
in the helicopter except for one thing: He’s black. If the only time you
encounter black people is when you’re policing crime, then your only experience
of black people is that they’re criminals.”
However, the only way for us to not make those assumptions and
associations is for us to spend more time with people who are different than
us. If this were to happen, then we would notice that we should not
be judging each other based on the amount of pigment in our skin for we
are all the same race: humanity.
Kitchen Tension- Kelli Connell
Laundry
From Connell's series "Double Life," I was intrigued by the visuals and expressions she gave through her model. By using one model Connell creates two meaning: relationship of masculinity versus femininity and the relationship with yourself. With Kitchen Tension, I wanted to draw upon the emotions that come across the faces. However, I wanted to show another setting in which these faces could be seen.
This kind of tension can read off as an argument between the two. The argument can take place during repetitious, mindless, activities in which the anger brews and a fight breaks out. So with doing the activity, there are also small details by the body language. With the Kitchen, Connell illustrates this through the arm of the red shirt model. Though this model is in the back, I placed mine in the front with her arm positioned as though defeated rather than preparing for round two as in the kitchen. The models never directly make eye contact. I think this is a key aspect for this emotion/setting because in a real argument when the people want to make up, it can be a struggle to come to terms and move past it.
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