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- Digital drawings like Kristen Liu Wong

- Used bright colors but invokes darker and stronger meanings

- make a similar game

- talk about how the beauty industry has limited the definition and taught younger generations toxic mindsets of what is socially accepted as “pretty”

Conceptual Inspiration:

“ At least 50 percent of Asians have a single eyelid, which is to say the eyelid has no supratarsal crease [2]. Additionally, Asians tend to possess a greater number of eyelid fat pads and a larger amount of subcutaneous and suborbicularis fat than members of other ethnic groups, and the periorbital fat is lower [1].”

For my second artist presentation, I researched on American Artist — a contemporary American artist who legally changed their name in order to recontextualize society’s perception of that title. I found a lot of their work to be very inspirational but there were a few that I particularly found extreme interest in. For example, their recent project titled “Looted” temporarily replaced all of the images on whitney.org with textures of plywood while the background of the pages changes to black. The artwork symbolically and literally boards up the museum and it’s website in an act of redaction and refusal.

This piece stood out to me most in my research because of how relevant it is made throughout the pandemic. At a time when many storefronts and museums in New York City and around the U.S.—including the Whitney Museum—have (or had) been temporarily boarded, Looted underscores that no space can remain unaffected by the examination of and demands for racial justice, and questions the power structures of providing access to art.

Inspiration for Project 5 Script: The Japanese colonization of the Korean during the Korean War

First, the man walks onto the stage and is welcomed with applause from his audience. He sings a conventional love song written by the mystic 13th century Sufi poet Rumi to his audience. When he is finished there is more applause. He turns around, walks towards us and stands in front of us, with his audience behind him. It is as if he is now watching the woman starting to perform her song on the opposite screen facing him.

The woman is prevented by the laws of Islam from singing in public, she is not supposed to be in the theatre and does not have an audience. She sings without words, free-form, improvised, unpredictable, primal, her facial expressions and hand movements are integral to her performance. She sings soulfully as an act of rebellion, frustration and distress. Perhaps she is trying to express the inexpressible, singing to express something deep inside herself and shared widely within her gender – to an empty theatre. Nobody is there to welcome or applaud her.

Like many art works shown on the Red Line Art Works website, Shirin’s work transcends the realms of the conventional 'western' art world. In large parts of this art world today there are artists, galleries, critics and collectors wholly infused with the values and assumptions of neoliberalism and materialism. This can involve : Satisfying the artists' ego as the first objective of art, judging art's 'success' by whether it fulfils the desire of the wealthy for exclusive décor in their homes or businesses, and defining 'successful artists' as those who are represented by galleries which exist to satisfy the tastes of wealthy buyers and collectors.

“On the 15th anniversary of its release in Japan, Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi – translated as "Sen and Chihiro's Spiriting Away" – remains untouched by rivals for its blend of the spiritual, the realistic, the fantastic and the human. For balancing all of those realms, Miyazaki was the master, and since his retirement we'll continue to look on Spirited Away as the film that was the masterpiece of his life.”