When looking back i find a huge inspiration to my work came from an extract called, Should plants have rights? By Michael Marder.
It was the first time i had read an academic piece on plant rights and it has opened my eyes to complex situation our environment it in.
Since then i have researched into this area, such as watching Michael Pollan’s Ted Talk on A Plant’s Eye View.
This looked deeper into the connections and responsibility humans have with nature and the environment. I want to express an importance for this in my work.
Deep Ecology –
When looking at identity, in the beginning i looked at it quite literally but still wanted to look deeper in my identity and what it means to be me.
I created this video to show stereotypes of skating and woman, which are two categories i fall into. While also researching into the stereotypes for skateboarding i noticed the culture i feel comfortable in could be represented as a religion, hence in the video people praying are present. Along with insults that have been said to skaters for generations.
I decided to look out at this point, as i was afraid of getting lost into my interest of skating.
So i started thinking about what makes our identity, our bodies.
This is something I haven’t experimented with before, so looked at my favourite artist, Salvador Dali for a distorted view on bodies and movement.
I then re-created his piece, The Great Masturbator, Frontispiece for “The Visible Woman”
The Big Blog 