When looking at freedom and liberty
I struggled to think of an idea or a restriction that would be different than
the normal “caged animals” or even a wider idea such as “the law” and tried to
think of freedom in more of a social context and how certain things which seem ‘normal’
to others are not really seen as ‘normal’ to other people outside of that
world.
When giving this question to people outside of college the first things they say are feminism and how we claim to live in a free world yet we are not entirely equal, so using that statement as my starting point and trying to avoid the feminism route; I brainstormed and questioned others things about which are unequal in today’s society, again trying to avoid the more obvious things such as feminism and racism even though they were both main points which people brought up, however another point which kept reoccurring was how the fluidity of gender in today’s world is so more acceptable than what it was say 20 or 30 years ago. After researching into the topic more and watching films such as Before Stonewall (based on mostly true events) and Too Wong Foo With Love Julie Newmar (completely fictional) and looking into gender bending and genderfuck and reading articles about both on google scholar and even looking at viral videos on the internet of staged situations in shops where an adult actor is seen with a child who wants a fancy dress costume (the boy wanted a princess dress and the girl wanted a superhero costume) and then a grown up (who is not planted or a hired actor) would publicly announce that a “boy should not wear a princess dress and that the parent (hired actor) should act quick as its a hard to beat out of them when they are older, i also looked at articles which looked into Angelina Jolie and how she is “destroying” her child by letting her child chose their name and the pronouns that they wish to go by, all of which provided me with enough evidence that this is a restriction on everyday life.
i thought that i should explore this by doing a series of portrait photographs of a person from each gender dressed up as the other however once this shoot was done i realised that the images that i had taken were not strong enough, and they looked slightly comedic something which i did not want to show while handling such a delicate subject, so instead of doing this i planned to take some still life images in the style of lisa Milroy and having one object be different in the whole bunch of them, this provided me with a method of getting my message across but in a less obvious way and enabled the viewer to see the image and for them to create their own ideals of what it means.
When giving this question to people outside of college the first things they say are feminism and how we claim to live in a free world yet we are not entirely equal, so using that statement as my starting point and trying to avoid the feminism route; I brainstormed and questioned others things about which are unequal in today’s society, again trying to avoid the more obvious things such as feminism and racism even though they were both main points which people brought up, however another point which kept reoccurring was how the fluidity of gender in today’s world is so more acceptable than what it was say 20 or 30 years ago. After researching into the topic more and watching films such as Before Stonewall (based on mostly true events) and Too Wong Foo With Love Julie Newmar (completely fictional) and looking into gender bending and genderfuck and reading articles about both on google scholar and even looking at viral videos on the internet of staged situations in shops where an adult actor is seen with a child who wants a fancy dress costume (the boy wanted a princess dress and the girl wanted a superhero costume) and then a grown up (who is not planted or a hired actor) would publicly announce that a “boy should not wear a princess dress and that the parent (hired actor) should act quick as its a hard to beat out of them when they are older, i also looked at articles which looked into Angelina Jolie and how she is “destroying” her child by letting her child chose their name and the pronouns that they wish to go by, all of which provided me with enough evidence that this is a restriction on everyday life.
i thought that i should explore this by doing a series of portrait photographs of a person from each gender dressed up as the other however once this shoot was done i realised that the images that i had taken were not strong enough, and they looked slightly comedic something which i did not want to show while handling such a delicate subject, so instead of doing this i planned to take some still life images in the style of lisa Milroy and having one object be different in the whole bunch of them, this provided me with a method of getting my message across but in a less obvious way and enabled the viewer to see the image and for them to create their own ideals of what it means.
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