Drawing Collection Proposal
Project Proposal
Favorite Quick Challenge Pieces:
1. From the "Erase" challenge
2. From the "Erase" challenge
3. From the "Layers" challenge
4. From the "Cardboard" challenge
Research:
1. Wolf
Alice – “Blush”
2. “Laura
Jane Grace on Gender Dysphoria and Family”
3. “Elle Pérez’s Search
for Intensity"
a) Binder (2015/2018)
b) t (2018)
What I find inspiring about the research:
1. The song “Blush” by Wolf Alice serves as a reference
point because it speaks about suffering, dealing with, working through, and
overcoming gender dysphoria symptoms, which is the disorder for the misalignment
that people feel between their gender identity and the sex they were assigned
at birth. Lines such as “Curse the things that made me sad for so long / Yeah,
it hurts to think that they can still go on / I’m happy now / Are you happy
now?”, “Spoke out the things that you’ve worked out to be wrong / You’ve got
two hands to take all you can, but don’t take too long / To be happy somehow”, “Figured
out I’m good”, and “You’re allowed to be what you could” are those that call my
attention the most. I feel that they contain the essence of the emotional
weight of the process of a gender transition, as it is not only personal, but
for most people is also social and medical.
2. The interview with Laura Jane Grace and Siri Sat Nam
Singh on Grace’s life with gender dysphoria and experience as a transwoman who is
also the lead singer of a punk band named Against Me! serves as a point of
reference because it highlights and reveals the reality of what it is like for
someone to be trans in the society we live in. Though it speaks from the
perspective of only one person’s experience, there is so much that Grace speaks
about that finds itself a communal tie throughout the trans community at large.
What I find particularly inspiring about the session/conversation in the video
is that the therapist prompts Grace to confront parts of herself that she had
previously just accepted as reality and truth based on societal, interpersonal,
and intrapersonal circumstances.
3. The photography by artist Elle Pérez serves as a reference
point because it engages with the objects that are often part of the life experience
of people who experience gender dysphoria, thus commenting on the physicality
and tangible nature of the experience that for most trans people feels deeply internalized,
singularly personal, and isolating. I like that these photographs represent and
give viewers the chance to consider the positive aspects of being able to have objects
such as a chest binder or prescription testosterone while also sensing the pain
that permeates the objects as well.
Ideas for drawing collection:
1. Barriers
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The content would engage with the idea of
barriers, specifically in reference to barriers as they present themselves in
the experience of a gender transition or even in the experience of coming to
terms with a non-binary gender identity.
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The work would be achieved through a
variety of mediums and processes.
o
Layering materials
o
Stitching and sewing
o
Painting
o
Small-scale mixed medium sculptural pieces
o
Modifying the functionality or appearance
of pre-existing objects
o
Using the body as a material
2. FTM Medical Transition
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The content of the work would relate to
the process of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and the various transitional
surgeries in a gender-affirming medical process.
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The work would be achieved through a
variety of mediums and processes.
o
Drawing with graphite or paint
o
Layering imagery
o
Small-scale mixed medium sculptural pieces
o
Modifying found objects or drawing on them
o
Using the body as a material
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