Painting

I then worked with a range of colours and ideas still using Gary Hume as my insperation, i did some work where i used different medias to see what effects i would have also by adding meidums to the top like P.V.A glue and cellotape.

Painting

Also i looked at Gary Humes work that was really abstact and it inspired me to create my own using his ideas.....

Painting Working

I have been inspired by Gary Hume and i have been looking how he use positive and negative. He is inspired by nature so i looked at working with leaves and animals..

Positive and negative ideas

I was inspired to create a oil painting of birds.. this is the out come and some ideas i had before hand.

Ellen Gallagher/ Printmaking

I really enjoyed looking at Gallaghers work.. It really inspired me as it was like some work i had all ready done but id like to recreate some work using her ideas. It fits in well with my printing making journey work as i looked at different hair styles and how they change which then change the person, which she has done but having photos of people and chaging there hair styles and making them all different.

"Delux"

                           

Cindy Sherman.. My take

I decided to do a retake of cindy shermans idea of having the same photo but changing little things like makeup, hair and clothes which totally change looks of a person. I did this using myself. As i think i change the way i look very easily thought having new hair cuts or having different emount of makeup on..

Jenny Saville

I really like her work i think she is draws larger women or women that have a penis. I Like the way she express herself in her art. You feel as if you are exploring genders with her. Id like to use this expession in my work to maybe recreate the idea of big is beautiful. Or maybe the change people make in there body from thin to fat or fat to thin.

Information i found on her...

Saville’s lifelong fascination with the workings of the human body began to affect her artwork. Finding herself immersed in a different culture, Saville “was interested in the malls, where you saw lots of big women. Big white flesh in shorts and T-shirts. It was good to see because they had the physicality that I was interested in.” It was in this environment that Saville began to read the feminist literature that would later play an important role in paintings such as Propped. With these texts and other artists such as Cindy Sherman (a contemporary conceptual photographer) as an influence, Saville embarked on creating a series of works that would later make up her degree show in Glasgow.

Jenny Saville: With the transvestite I was searching for a body that was between genders. I had explored that idea a little in Matrix. The idea of floating gender that is not fixed. The transvestite I worked with has a natural penis and false silicone breasts. Thirty or forty years ago this body couldn’t have existed and I was looking for a kind of contemporary architecture of the body. I wanted to paint a visual passage through gender – a sort of gender landscape. To scale from the penis, across a stomach to the breasts, and finally the head. I tried to make the lips and eyes be very seductive and use directional mark-making to move your eye around the flesh.

Tajfel's theory

Summary of the main concepts discussed
in Henri Tajfel's theory of social identity

Do we choose our identity?

Can people choose their identity and if so how much of our identity do we choose? For the aspects we don’t choose how did they come to form part of our identity? How much of our identity is a non-changeable permanent part of ourselves, and how much has been cast over us like a cloak via external influences including family of origin, friends, teachers, the media and social structures?

Plastic Surgery

This is somthing i have found intesting for a while now. As someone who hates a certain part of my body alot, i could still not concinder the thought of having plastic surgery to change it. I believe this is how i was ment to look and i have to except that.
I have been looking at a number of celebrites and found out pretty much most of them have had some kind of face surgery. some people more that others. But for some it has gone terrible wrong! Most have ended up look alot worse than how they did..

Any one can be worlds sexiest woman afer surgery!

Surgery gone Wrong

The meaning of identity

A psychological identity relates to self image (a person's mental model of him or herself), self-esteem and individuality. An important part of identity in psychology is gender identity, as this dictates to a significant degree how an individual views him or herself both as a person and in relation to other people, ideas and nature. In cognitive psychology, the term "identity" refers to the capacity for self-reflection and the awareness of selff
Sociology places some explanatory weight on the concept of role-behavior. The notion of identity negotiation may arise from the learning of social roles through personal experience. Identity negotiation is a process in which a person negotiates with society at large regarding the meaning of his or her identity.
Psychologists most commonly use the term "identity" to describe personal identity, or the idiosyncratic things that make a person unique. Meanwhile, sociologists often use the term to describe social identity, or the collection of group memberships that define the individual. However, these uses are not proprietary, and each discipline may use either concept and each discipline may combine both concepts when considering a person's identity.

Regina José Galindo

Performance art lends itself to the utilization of the body as a resource, a space for discussion and a mechanism for discourse. Regina is a Guatemalan performance artist that uses her body to denounce social and political injustices, but also to address issues related to sexuality and women. Galindo gained international acclaim with her performance Quien puede borrar las huellas (Who can remove the traces), where the artist walked from the Constitutional Building to the National Palace in Guatemala with a basin full of human blood , dipping her feet in it and leaving a trace of bloody footprints; a forceful statement regarding the abuse of human rights in her native country.

Galindo often employs violent and at times painful actions on herself to get her point across. For example, in the performance Perra, the artist carves the word perra (bitch) into her left leg with a knife, to denounce the atrocities committed towards women in Guatemala, where women’s bodies are found tortured and mangled and at times left with inscriptions made with a knife or razor.

Hannah Wilke

Hannah Wilkes work is really inspiring.. She went from people a sex symbol to a very ill fragile person. However she was still very beutiful and did not stop working untill then end..

Biography:

Hannah Wilke (born Arlene Hannah Butter, 1940) was one of the first artists to use images of the vagina in her work during the 1960′s and 1970′s. She worked in a variety of different mediums such as photography, sculpture, installation, assemblage, drawing and performance. In most of her work, the body is itself a sculptural object and a means of expression to discuss issues related to the depiction of women in fashion and popular culture. In her photographic piece S.O.S - Starification Object Series, Wilke poses in a series of ‘glamour shots’ placing on her body tiny chewing gum sculptures that mimic her early terracota vagina sculptures. The work consists of 35 black and white photographs taken by Les Wollan in a ‘Mastication Box’, a game box with photographs, chewing gum sculptures, playing cards and instructions for play. In fact, her self-portrait photographs were taken by male photographers because the artist thought that the male eye focused mostly on her body than on anything else.

Hannah Wilke died in 1993 of complications from Lymphoma. For her final work Intra-Venus, her husband Donald Goddard documented the physical and mental ravages of the illness that was slowly taking over her body.

My own experiance with my looks..

Ever since i was litttle i have worried what i looked like, however I started to worry more about the way i look when i hit high school. Where i realised my natural self was not what people wanted to see. I was picked on for the way my hair was, beacuse it was long thick and curly. People would make jokes and call me afro hair or frizzy. Thats when i started to straigten my hair or cut it so it was easy to make less curly. i felt then people would leave me more alone and i started being excepted. Also i started wearing much more makeup. I look back now and think i must have looked like a clown but at the time i did it to fit in. This was not the real me.
I would be teased aswell about having hair arms or people would say id have a "tash" as they would call it.. which corsed me to shave most of my body hair off including my arms. After that people didnt judge me so much. I had a whole group of new friends. i started to wear what everyone els is wearing. i totally rechanged myself. But i was never happy ive gone though so many hair styles in a short space of time.. I have never felt totally comftable in myslef.
Then i had some kind of break thought. a change of view in how i see myself.. i started looking last year on how people recreate themself to fit to socitey, and it was amazing what i found. In most cultures people recreated themself to fit in or be more "beautiful".
From Chineese foot binding to neck steching in Tribes!.. Do they do it for the same reason as us? or not?
Then i looked at people who have plastic surgery to become "perfect" (whatever that is?) they had so much plastic surgery it was unreal! but yet still was not happy with themself?
There is many artist that deal with this idea.. Ive looked at Cindy Sherman, Jenny Saville, Hannah Wilike, Lynn Hershman and Jillian Wearing. These artist have really inspired me with the ideas they have had.

Thats when it hit me! Why do i do this? Become someone or something im not?
Im now trying to grow my hair back long and thick! i wear what i feel happy in.. whether its in fashion or not.
I somtimes even let the hair grow back on my arms ( but dont want to push it to far)

Why do we judge people?

I found this while looking online it is a piece a reported wrote, on the way we judge people. Also the discrimitation people have in the work place (in America). I find it interesting as i have done this myslef and why we do it, i dont no. ?

How many times do any of us go out and about, see some random individual, and leap to some kind of conclusion about their personality or character based upon what we see in just those few short seconds? Example: The tall kid over there must play basketball or that guy wearing female pants is either homosexual or in a hurry when he left his girlfriends place. Look at that woman's cleavage, she must put out. Hey, that Mexican guy must speak Spanish, etc.
If we are at all honest with ourselves I would be willing to bet that the answer to that question is all of the time. But why do we do it? Is it because we have to categorize people, or fit them into some kind of classification system? Who knows, we just do. I try not to when I see or meet someone for the first time, but every now and again I just leap to a conclusion about that person. Sometimes I am right, sometimes wrong. The fact that I make those kinds of judgments at all is wrong.
This is not only a local phenomenon, it happens all over America. So much so that studies have be done on the subject. A recent poll taken about appearance based discrimination in the workplace produced these results.
•39 percent said employers should have the right to deny employment to someone based on appearance, including weight, clothing, piercing, body art, or hair style.
•33 percent said that in their own workplace, workers who are physically attractive are more likely to be hired and promoted.
•33 percent said workers who are unattractive, overweight, or generally look or dress unconventionally, should be given special government legal protection such as that given persons with disabilities.
•Of the 39 percent who said employers should have the right to deny employment based on looks, men outnumbered women 46 percent to 32 percent while whites outnumbered nonwhites 41 percent to 24 percent.
•Those having personal experience with the matter produced this information. Almost 16 percent said they had been the victim of appearance-based discrimination.
•Of those, 38 percent said the discrimination was based on their overall appearance while 31 percent said it was their weight and 14 percent said it was a reaction to their hairstyle.
•33 percent of those saying they had been discriminated against said it was for some other reason.
Ideally we should just be open to new people and ideas so when we meet someone, let them show us who they are. Unfortunately that is not the way things work out. Everybody has that friend who upon meeting somebody at the same time as you that will make comments about them, usually after this individual has left. "I can't believe they dress like that," or "what is with that hair" are among some of the comments I have heard and said in these situations. If you do not have a friend like this then you probably are that person.
I do not like that when I make these assumptions about others, and laugh when they are made about me. Because you never can tell what another person is going to be like.
Many of the people I have known, and regularly associate with, for at least a year are to this day surprising me with different aspects of their personalities. You never know what any given person is like. Everybody deserves a chance to show that they are either a good person or not, that they are smart or stupid, and don't worry if you do leap to some kind of conclusion about a person you meet, you are only human after all. That is my excuse.