How society views women
Research Document
Judge calls victim, 13, a ‘sexual predator’: Outcry as 41-year-old man walks free after admitting sex with girl One woman, who said she was sexually abused as a child, told The Independent that she “could have been that 13-year-old girl”. She added that child victims of abuse often do not see themselves as victims at all because of the grooming process they have been put through.
“As a result of the abuse, I adopted some behaviour that could have been described as sexually predatory; in the same way as this girl’s was described. My understanding, as a young child, was that affection and being close to people was about doing sexual acts.”
Angela (not her real name), 37, said that was the way she felt during six years of sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather as a child. She said that, because of the abuse, she believed love to simply be a sexual act from an early age. Angela, whose ordeal started at the age of seven, said: “He told me that it happens in every family. I believed him because he was in a position of trust.” - http://www.independent. co.uk/news/uk/crime/ judge-calls-victim-13-asexual-predator-outcry-as41yearold-man-walks-freeafter-admitting-sex-withgirl-8748494.html
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How society views women There are many consequences of teaching young girls that it is their responsibility to deter an attacker’s attention and not to invite sexual attacks, such as the resulting victim blaming and the formation of rape myths. http://tinaledger.co.uk/2014/05/23/ sexism-alarm/
Project unbreakable I found a project online called project unbreakable which i thought was awesome and it sowed how society has taught others to view women for how we dress or who they think we are/. It comes away from society a little and focuses a little more on men but i used it as a source because it shows that they think that they can get away with anything because ‘we are asking for it’
Lindsay Bottos response to bullying This Young Artist Turns Online Bullying Towards Women Into Empowering Art Lindsay Bottos gets slammed with vicious online messages every day. Her crime? The young artist posts a lot of selfies on her website.
Tal Peleg’s response to Bullying Artist who paints intricate scenes on to her eyelids is now using her amazing skill to promote themes such as anti-bullying. Israeli make-up professional and blogger Tal Peleg creates the designs A young make-up artist continues to amaze the art world with her incredible miniature masterpieces painted onto her eyelid. Using just make-up tools such as liquid eye liner and eye shadow, plus tiny appliquÊ particles, Israeli make-up professional and blogger Tal Peleg imagines scenes from fairy tales, classic novels and emotions onto her face. Her project, dubbed window to the soul, and previously covered by Mail-online has now taken she a deeper and more thought-provoking turn with pieces such as an anti-Bullying image pictured below.
Tal’s Anti-Bullying design, ‘words can be dangerous, use them wisely’ The ‘blades’ depicted in the first, anti-bullying image meanwhile are made from aluminium foil. I think that this particular design really expresses how someone could be feeling and to me it shows agony and loneliness. I feel like the blades could represent cutting themselves or that they feel emotionally ravaged ad the leaking tear represents pain and sorrow.
Tal’s favourite poet Edgar Allan Poe inspires this image. She read The Raven at 14, literature in which she found ‘so much emotion, strength and darkness’
This piece painted onto the top of an eyelid is called The Artist’s Melancholia, accompanied with the quote ‘I shut my eyes in order to see,’ by Paul Gauguin
This one is based on a book and I believe that the dark themes of the make-up with the grave yard and the dead tree represent the book but could also be related to how someone is feeling dead inside.
I like this one because she uses colours to represent emotions, almost like a mood ring and then she as them leaking like the emotions are spilling over onto the surface and they can no longer be kept inside. I feel like a lot of young people could relate.
Labels- writing on
the skin
I then looked at a photographer called Deborah Anderson- a while ago she produced some photos that focused on how when we are labelled these labels stick with us through life. Even though these models were no older they still remembered the hateful words that they were called. It was to fight against bullying but also being labelled and how that affects you in life, how it can damage your selfesteem and make you feel less of a person then you are. Who gave people the right to judge others on how the look and not who the are? However not only did they show how people can be effected by hateful words they also used words, which made the models feel good about themselves or empowered.
This model is called Ann and her bully word was giant because when she was younger she was bullied for being tall and awkward.
This model is called Rhianna and when she was younger she was often called stupid because of her how she looks and was bullied for it.
This model is called Kayla and her bully word was queer. I hat this word because it effects all that her it not just those it is ‘intended’ for.
However her empowerment word was Amazon which I loved because it represents independence, beauty and strength, Qualities that I believe every girl can possess.
Her empowerment word undefinable, which I think is really important people shouldn’t try to define us and compartmentalise us- we can many different things and shouldn’t be judged by how we look.
Her empowerment word was free. I live this word, I think that everyone is free, everyone should have a right to be free. We shouldn’t be judged by others, for what they believe to be right or acceptable and we should be allowed to be ourselves and love whoever we want.
Beccy Fisk-
painting on skin A student graphic designer studying at Huddersfield uni, but currently doing her placement year, created a project where she painted injuries on peoples skin. -http://www.beccyfisk.com/ work/#/eastward/
Calligraphy on girls//Shura
Backstage from Calligraphy on Girls session with Shura. Senia aka Pokras Lampas as always bringing you crazy lettering. I was linked to a video about a guy who writes beautiful calligraphy, but on girls bodies. He first tests out all the fonts and then writes them onto the skin.
Stefan Sagmeister
Pomel lane
My tests As a test for one of my ideas I created templates and then hand
My photography- male
My photographyfemale
My photographyfemale
My animation- Pip
Booklet research
Look book ideas
3 mini book ideas- look books 1 for each model.
Final cover idea
Look book ideas- cover for my final book.
Examples pages
My animation- tree
Interactive Shadows Made with Words
It’s one thing to stand in font of a projector to create shadow puppets, but it’s an entirely different experience to block a text-based floor projection and see your typographic silhouette on an adjacent wall. Istanbul-based multidisciplinary creative studio NOTA BENE Visual has designed a mind-boggling audiovisual installation using an intricately executed videomapping technique that uses the latest technology to create an artistically intriguing environment for spectators to engage in. The interactive typographic installation titled In Order to Control features a constant loop of selected text about “the threshold [of] ethics and morality” projected on the ground. (You can read the full transcript of the projection here.) The most interesting thing about the project is the interactivity and its reliance on audience participation. As spectators step into the installation to read the projected content, their blackened silhouette covers the words on the floor and transfers them to the proximate wall.
Interactive Shadows Made with Words http://www.mymodernmet. com/profiles/blogs/nota-benevisual-in-order-to-control
Wordsworth
Art and Technology Combine to Illuminate Vanderbilt University’s Research Visitors passing through the entrance of the Central Library are greeted by WordsWorth: a stream of light projected on the lobby floor that displays patterns symbolic to Vanderbilt. The elements comprising these patterns are actual words and terms used by students and faculty in their online research and harvested in real time from the library search engines. WordsWorth is responsive to every movement — stepping through the stream of light causes the elements to scatter. When the visitor passes beyond the range of WordsWorth the scattered words slowly return to one of three iconic patterns. As new searches occur the words projected on the floor change to reflect what the campus community is researching at that moment in time.
http://exhibits.library. vanderbilt.edu/wordsworth. html
Jenny Holzer Jenny Holzer, conceptual artist Jenny Holzer is a conceptual projection artist from Ohio who attended Ohio University and Rhode Island School of Design. She started out focusing on painting and printmaking and then moved to projection text projects in New York City. The main body of her work occurs in public spaces. She started using LED signs and street posters and expanded her medium to include all types of signs, benches, stickers, paintings, photos, and so forth. She uses text written by others including famous authors and words from different sources such as US Army documents or minutes from interrogations of soldiers in Abu Ghraib. The theme of Holzer’s work revolves around social issues such as violence, feminism, war, and sexuality. She wants to open up thoughts and perceptions.
My projection on people
My projection animation on people
Projection i wanted to project onto the side of the uni building and create an instillation using my video of putting together layered images of my model pip projected onto pip.