Different Side

•  "What are these paintings? Before they are anything else, they are themselves objects which can be bought and owned. Unique poems."

• "Before these canvases the spectator-own hoped to see the classic face of his own passion or grief or generosity. The idealize appearances he found in the painting were in aid, a support to his own view of himself.

                 

    The videos demonstrate the differences between gender (man vs. woman). Part 1 and part 2 video contains what we see in today's society which is the woman always has to do chores while the man sits and relaxes. This video symbolize how my brother is the one who can do whatever he wants that no one can tell him what he can or cannot do. Family and society expect the woman and girls to learn the necessities like cooking, house chores or serving the "man of the house". The first video shows how the woman has to provide food for the man but sometime they are not please by the work. The part 2 video shows how the man relaxes from has hard day or work or can also symbolize how my brother can enjoy his free time while the girl or woman have to do the chores. Society gives a slap to the woman's face meaning the patriarchal society. In Understanding Patriarchy, Bell Hooks states "As their daughter I was taught that it was my role to serve, to be weak, to be free from the burden of thinking, to caretake and nurture others... I was taught that it was not proper for a female to be violent, that it was “unnatural.” The reason why my brother slap me in slow motion and in that instant of the end you can see how I am left speechless while my brother stand there as if it is natural.  It just shows again how the simplicity of thing occurring in todays society. I also use Andy Warhol ideas by making the video slow motion to slow down the time and the action of the occurrence. The music effect and the them back ground color used in the first video to demonstrate the cold and serious effect around what is happening so it can highlight what I am trying to covey to everyone. In the picture let's ignore the age difference and focus how woman are taught by their culture or roots to just stand by to receive such treatment. In Ways of Seeing by John Berger he states,"the focus of perception shifts from eyes, mouth, shoulders, hands- all of which are capable of such is manifold." The picture demonstrated on the bottom is a mere example of. that how I am crouched down and upset while my brother stands up all high mighty. It show how men are in power and in control over themselves but also toward the woman. Even in the artworks woman are displayed as "compliment objects" or like Berger says "to be born as a woman has been to be born, within an allotted and confined space, into keeping of men." The means that women is portray to serve the man, to be sided with the man. Women can't find their own voice nor be indepedent and can't grow and find their own identity. Is like they are trap to do what society tells them to do. The videos as stated previously has so much life to it and makes you think and puts you in that position of what you are seeing in screen. Video resembles the photography in a way where you can add effects but a video show much more feeling than a picture would show you. The video you can sense the sadness not only because of the action or occurrence being filmed but it disturbs you in a way that makes you wonder. For example of Yoko Ono the video of people cutting her clothes give the viewers a view of how the actual person is reacting to what is happening around their surroundings. It is the same here we see how woman act, how woman are treated and also how they are perceived but if they don't change or if people don't change their way of seeing them an an individual then women won't find their identity.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Conclusion