I have been making work but I do not have much access to equipment right now so I am throwing some things here that I consider video sketches and I hope to come back to them at some point.

I am drawn to this place…

I found this website, I don’t know if you follow it already. The lady who runs this project went to Wright State in Dayton and I know some people that know her.
https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com/

I am thinking I want to model fat body of work after this project model, to an extent. I also have other models that inform this project.

I think I need to just pay someone to help me with the website. I thought I could do it on my own but I can’t get it sophisticated enough. My sister’s husband is a web developer so I think I might see if he will help me.

I also think I want to do an open call but I need to find somewhere to have a show. 
I like how she does podcasts with the artist. SO I think I am going to interview the featured artist every month.
I might do the zoom classes too, but I think first I need to get the website to be accessible.

As I start to use writing and my voice more in my performance work. I am looking at this artist.

http://www.lexbrown.com/

I’ve been trying to throw things on this blog to help me remember my research and process when I have to write my thesis. Here is an image of me sorting wigs and outfits for my next Live performance/video project.

“Before the Industrial Revolution, the average woman could not have had the same feelings about “beauty” that modern women do who experience the myth as continual comparison to a mass disseminated physical ideal. Before development of technologies of mass production — daguerrotypes, photographs, etc. — an ordinary woman was exposed to few such things outside the church.”

“Western economies are absolutely dependent now on the continued underpayment of woman. An ideology that makes woman feel “worth less” was urgently needed to counteract the way feminism had begun to make us feel worth more.”

“As soon as woman’s primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty.”

“Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that woman will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.”

“While woman represent nearly 50 percent of the population, they perform nearly two-thirds of all working hours, receive only one-tenth of the world income and own less than 1 percent of world property.” (starts on page 23)

“But because “beauty” lives so deep in the psyche, where sexuality mingles with self esteem, and since it has been usefully defined as something that is continually bestowed from the outside and can always be taken away, to tell a woman she is ugly can make her feel ugly, act ugly, and, as far as her experience is concerned, be ugly, in a place where feeling beautiful keeps her whole.”

“Solidarity is hardest to fine when woman learn to see each other as beauties first. The myth urges women to believe that it’s every women for herself”