Thesis: Although The United State is a relatively open country, many transgender people are still suffering from violence and racism because of their gender identity. Bibliography: Del, Jose A. “‘I Can’t Be Myself Here’: At the Border, Transgender Women Navigate 2 Worlds.” The New York Times. March 23, 2019. Accessed March 25, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/us/transgender-women-border-mexico.html. Adams, […]
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Diptych
Introduction: in this assignment, I explored the topic of gender by making diptychs that with signifer. The signifier I chose for each diptych is screen, body figure, graffiti, text-based, and skull. Mind Map: #1 Reflection: The signifier I chose is skull. I use clay and gold leaves to make two clay skull. In my understanding, human […]
Inquiry into an object, form or image
Introduction: in this assignment, I explored the topic of gender by making diptychs that with signifer. The signifier I chose for each diptych is screen, body figure, graffiti, text-based, and skull. Mind Map: #1 Inspiration: Betty Tompkin, feminist artist https://www.artsy.net/artist/betty-tompkins Emma Watson: Gender equality is your issue too 从Reflection: this pair of […]
Taxonomies
Introduction: This project includes two collections of images base on research. First one is the image of signifier, texture, fabric, color, etc. Most of my image I collected from the internet, websites like Pinterest. The second collection is more about context. I have visit two museums that are related to my theme identity, MoMA and Leslie-Lohman Museum. I want to […]
Research in life
Research in MoMA When thinking about research, the first thing that come to my mind will be research papers. As a art school student, fortunately, i don’t have to take any tough math course, but i did have to learn academic research skill. Instead of school, research is also every common in daily life. Base […]
Project Deconstruction
This is a soft sculpture by Joyce Zhu. It was a project for Space and Material, created in 2018. It’s a weaving between branches with dyed rope, fabric and wire. She was inspired by a artist called Moheb Zandi, who did a lots of weaving with mix media and textile art. Her idea is […]
Bridge 1-2
What If from Natasha: What if the eyes are opened and have different expressions? What if the sculptures are arranged differently? what if it’s not a sculpture but an illustration? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/science/skin-color-race.amp.html Introduction: My theme is Identity, which is about different skin color. New York is a city that has a really diverse culture. We will able to […]
10 Questions about Theme
Introduction: This is the questions that I came up with my topic, to be more specific, they are helping me to ?? my theme. I am struggling with the relationship between LGBTQ and Gender. People generally identify their gender at a very young age, and then they started to develop their preference. However, I think the […]
Bridge 1-1
Introduction: These photos are taken in MoMA, New York City, and form research on internet., including news and an speech from an artist. My theme for this project is identity. I focus on the difference in skin color in my research since there are still a lot of conflicts happened because of stereotypes or racism. […]
Sunrise on branches
Joyce Zhu Space and Material: Body Salas Carolyn December 17th, 2018 Sunrise on branches For this project, we are doing a soft sculpture, textile or installation art with recycled material instead of buying. What i did is a weaving between branches with dyed rope, fabric and wire. My idea is to express a frame of […]