Daily Practice- Week 1

 Working on idea of sculpture form of female totems in conjunction with image- How do the relate 

WEEK 1:

 Writing:

WEEK 2:

Week 2

Identity as a constant state of becoming.

Uses: 

Earth

biological (celluar)

patriarchal constructions

WEEK 4

Spent the week creating milk chandelier and milk bottle sculpture piece. The milk bottle  is a metaphor for nurturing, modernization...

Week 3

Writing, reading, rewriting, reading, editing, writing...

Works of Trinh T. Minh-ha::

Woman Native Other, Reassemblage, Surname Viet Given Name Nam

Trihn deconstructs Postcolonial notions of race and gender shaped by contemporary feminists and anthropological discourses. 

Quotes:

"Writing, reading, thinking, speculating, these are luxury activities…. So I am reminding, permitted to a privileged few. The guilt promotes passivity and harbors a lack of confidence, distractions, distortion, and despair, further entrenching women in the patriarchal discourse."

“Between knowledge and power there is room for knowledge without power.” 

Watched Reasseblage, clips, fragments of ideas arranged into a documentary format

Week One- August 10, 2010

Just arrived home after being gone for over a month. Happy to be back in my home. VCFA residency was great and I have a lot of work to do, but before I start it all I really need a rest. I am going to take a week off to just hang.