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Description --> In this unit the author explains materials and supplies that contains the subjects of inputs, supplies and outsourcing, and just-in-time. What I learned --> In this unit I learned about materials and supplies that contains the vocabulary of inputs, supplies and outsourcing, and just-in-time. Inputs: raw materials, components/parts, labor, capital, knowledge, work-in-progress, finish goods, stocks and goods. Supplies and outsourcing: suppliers, partners, subcontracting, outside suppliers, outsourcing, and in-house. Just-in-time: in stock, financed, stared, warehouses, handled, just in time, lean product, lean manufacturing, and efficiently.

This is the last series that I shot for inclusion in my final project for Design Studio. This series has a title: “Self portraits wearing acid face mask.”  It revisits the themes of pain and feminine labor. The adage “beauty is pain” comes to mind — initially, the idea of putting acid on one’s face sounds like a terrible, painful, disfigurative idea, but it’s actually something included all the time in facial anti-aging/resurfacing treatments targeted towards women. The first image is one of the eight images I chose to make into a primary large print for the final presentation, and it asks questions about skin as separate from oneself, about disassociation from one’s body in general. The saturation of the red skin addresses the idea of pain as sacrifice to beauty. It is also an instance of cathartic documentation of the hidden, private moments of feminine labor that one is not supposed to admit to.

This image is also the clearest demonstration of what it means to be object and author. This theme is probably the most important out of all the ones present in this project. To author your own objectification is a powerful act that women do every day; when stating this I consider specifically Instagram and Tumblr (not to mention the world of online sex work, where a lot of feminist theory related to self objectification — not always negative, not always positive — comes from). These are online spaces where women consciously curate their personas and create and make use of their own image in a way that they know will cause it to be objectified and commodified, and as a result of this effort, gain power and influence. This is a direct subversion of what objectification for the male gaze has meant and lead to in the past, with few historical exceptions. Women who act as both object and author are almost entirely a modern phenomena, learning and growing with the rise of social media; Kim Kardashian is the ultimate contemporary example of someone who has mastered self objectification for personal gain.

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