Okay.. so I am feeling a lot better about this project than I was during my crisis last week I had a tutorial which REALLY helped, I think sometimes it’s just good to have someone to either say yes or no and just kind of steer you in a direction that either you haven’t thought about or just confirm what you’re thinking is right.
So what I have taken from my tutorial was to not worry about this magazine and potentially do a more editorial, I loveeeeeee illustrations like that’s my jam that’s what I want my outcome to be for this brief but I think I created 3 things I wanted/needed to do for this project (illustrations, magazine, womens march) and I was just looking for ways to bridge them together and link them and I just needed to take a complete step back. I think trying to make these links were 100% what was stopping me.
Well hopefully I’ll see what happens when I start illustrating my final outcomes, I’ve been looking at Francesca Pageo and her stuff is SO GOD DAMN DREAMY, she deffo holds a lot of my inspiration, now it’s just trying to get that inspiration on paper.
I’m also not dwelling too much on the Women’s Marches, like something has to give for me to stop being so scared of this blank piece of paper and just start doing yanno, I know I’ll find a way to link and convey the message I want and to be honest I bet it’ll end up being subconscious anyway!
I’m just so glad that I feel more positive about this and ready to go forward, oh AND I’m going to another cheeky photography exhibition.
I know right I’m crazy.
I literally have no idea.
I feel I just don’t have any direction in this project right now, I can’t see past the outcome of a magazine and because I can’t get past this, I just keep trying to look too deep into it trying to literally link this magazine I’m gonna create with the Womens March.
I’m stuck in a rut, and I can’t get my head out of it.
I know that I’m focusing too hard on linking them and I need to take a step back, BUT I JUST CAN’T OKAY.
I have a tutorial coming up and oh boy I need it, I just need validation and reassurance that I can link these together even loosely.
The thing with art is as long as you can justify why you’ve done it and have a reasonable argument to what/why/how it links and can show/discuss then you can link most things within reason.
I just can’t see a connection, to me I feel I have two projects running parallel a research into the Womens March and a creative project of a magazine.
I dunno, I’m sure I’ll see the light.
So Feminism, as we already discussed (or rather didn’t discuss) is pretty broad and because it’s so damn broad and I have 3 weeks (lol not stressing at all), I’m gonna focus on the Women’s March and the Marches that have taken place recently.
Reasonable place to start? I think so too.
So where do I start? Maybe at the beginning?
Well let me tell you that the first recorded Womens March was in Versailles in 1789 during the French Revolution, women been fighting for dem rights for some centuries. I feel all their views however were aligned with one goal.
So Women’s Marches aren’t this new thing that was created around the fact Donald Trump is an awful awful man, but they’ve been helping women fight for their rights for a long ass time.
So how can I relate Women’s Marches to art? Or portray such emotion and an expression of women fighting for their rights and what they believe in, that I haven’t conquered yet. I am however going to try and conjure up some inspiration by a couple of exhibitions that have caught my eye, more on that one later.
I did also in a complete moment of spontaneity go and see the Gregory Crewdson exhibition, I KNOW HOW BOLD, and what relevance does this hold I hear you say? Surprisingly quite a bit actually, I found the way he curated his photographs mesmerising and gave me food for thought with once I get started how I can put together my imagery.
I feel Womens Marches are very much an expression, like art in themselves really not just the signs of protest and the beautiful imagery/messages these signs hold but the actual act of them marching together.
Feminism.
Discuss..
IM KIDDING IM KIDDING, we’d be here all year if we did that.
But feminism, something I’m really interested in not just cause of the obvious with women’s rights and how men aren’t the dominant sex equality etc etc etc but how people perceive feminism, how they interpret and react to the word feminism.
Many feminists interpret being a feminist differently creating their own feminist ideology yet use this broad broad word ‘feminism’ to describe their opinion. This same word that someone else might use to describe their views which turn out to be opposing views compared to their feminist friend.
Yet these two people (cause not all feminist’s are women yanno) would both stand together calling themselves Feminists.
When you look up the definition of Feminist it is as follows:
Noun:
A person who supports Feminism
Not very enlightening, so what about feminism?
Feminism:
The advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes.
Okay, a bit more descriptive but I’m still not feeling very enlightened, I’m feeling even more broad if anything.
I just find it super interesting how it can be interpreted in so many different ways, if you asked a group of people what feminism meant to them they would all say something different some would just regurgitate the standard definition. But it’s the personal feminist answer that say the most.
The downside to this like everything with such a broad array of answers you get some feminist’s having controversial opinions or trying to put the word into a nice little box with it meaning only x,y & z, no more no less. With these opinions (and let’s be honest misinterpretation) comes bad publicity that inevitably creates a stigma surrounding the word.
See I told you, SO INTERESTING.
Well this is what I’m doing my project on, how so many people can stand together fighting for Women and their rights, for this same cause with this feminist name tag. Yet most of them won’t have the same opinions or views, yet here they are a feminist at a Woman’s March, fighting for feminism what is that version of feminism they’re fighting for?
Or is this just a whole load of bullshit and actually feminism does fit into descriptions 1, 2 & 3?
Well.. it’s been a while, for uni and this blog!
It’s pretty strange being back after over 12 months of being away from Brighton AND education, living in London then coming back here is super super weird. Like hey there sea how have you been??
Brighton hasn’t seemed to change that much some shops are different but it’s still basically how I remember it.
Yet here we are, new year new me n all jazz it’s fourth year we’re meant to have changed. Right?
Oh god fourth year, looming over our heads sooooo many deadlines like ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod, can we all just pull the duvets over our head and pretend this isn’t happening??
I mean I may be speaking too soon, but there isn’t one module that I’m not interested in this semester, THE BRIEFS ALL JUST LOOK QUITE INTERESTING!
Creative Research.. that one I am slightly on the fence about, I’m finding it a bit confusing but I’m gonna just put that down to being overwhelmed with first week back n all that.
I guess this is a welcome back to Brighton and this blog, I feel you both missed me.