Connection between Studio and Seminar
In my final work, what I study and create in Studio and Seminar are closely related. The first is the theme of the consistency, I studied the theme Gender Fluidity for my final works of both Studio and Seminar and revolves around the theme of the creation and writing. The second is although my Seminar paper is to study about many other artists’ artworks about some specific gender fluid group (these works are not about their own ideas, but more about researches on these groups), and my Studio is an expression of the final works myself for my own gender idea, but a lot of my ideas is also produced and improved from learning about the artworks about these gender fluid communities.
My Final Work for Studio
The Artworks I researched for Seminar
Coffin of the Lady of the House, circa 1292-1190 B.C.E
Jill Peters, Haki1, 2009
Giuseppe Bonito, Il Femminiello, 1740/1760
Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Kumu Hina, 2016
In this whole semester, my study and research in Studio and Seminar are also closely related. Because I have studied the same subject: Gender, I have done a lot of research on Gender in both courses. The most useful thing I learned at Seminar was how to write articles. I also applied these skills in the Learning Portfolio for Studio.
Challenge
I think the most challenging thing in the whole semester is how to determine the theme and content of the paper. In an earlier Annotated Bibliography exercise, I’d looked at a lot of sources very interspersed without really summarizing what I’d written in the paper. Later, I came to my thesis through the conversation with Amy. And because the thesis she gave me is so perfect, I don’t know how to write it again in my own language, so I have to change the thesis again and again, which is definitely the hardest thing.
For the Future
I really like that I have studied many gender fluid communities with a long history for the Seminar paper. In the future study, I will try to combine the results of these studies with my personal fashion design (my major is fashion design). I haven’t figured out how to incorporate the concept of gender fluidity into fashion, but there are obviously many ways. For example, designing gender-neutral clothes, or blurring the gender boundary between men and women with the effect of clothes and makeup, breaking some gender stereotypes.
Gender-neutral Fashion
Fashion that Blurs the Gender Boundary
