My family background
Since my interest lies in feminism and role of women in society, I decided to use myself within my family hood to start the idea of this project. I thought it might get little risky to use myself in this project as it might gets too personal, but I think my family background is rather unusual since I am the only female member throughout the generations. Personally, this background has influenced my life greatly that I think it even effected my style of work. Also, I had to feel always lonely and left out for being the only female that most of times I had no one else who could understand the feelings of being a typical women and it built a complex relationship with my dad, too. The project moved on illustrating myself within the dominance of male existence in my family and on to my personal letter that I am addressing some of real emotions that I have been always wanted to say to my dad. As being an only daughter, most of times I had to act(or pretend) to be a better daughter than I am and it involved some sacrifices in my life,too. I guess this project was more focused on myself as I wanted to break out my dad's shell and may be become a bigger person on my own.
Final outcome
Feed back with David Preston
I enjoyed today's crit because we were separated in two different groups so I had a smaller group in the afternoon to discuss about my project. So we had more time to think about each projects and lot of discussions were thrown on the table. David mentioned that we should bring more experiments and process to crits which I felt the same too so it was a reminder for myself. Anyways, in general I was bit worried if my project was too personal but in the end I realised it became strong because it was based on my fact and the group suggested that I should target the message of the male dominance in the society in a broader content. I really wanted to push my idea such as a shoe stack in 3D installation piece and someone in my group suggested I could possibly do that for my final degree show which I thought it would be interesting.
Feed back on illustration: Good but the relationship of myself and family isn't clear. Try to map it more clearly so the viewer can understand the relationships better.
Relevance: Is that relevant to people? Start few investigations more and extend it to a bigger visual audience. May be compare myself to someone who isn't?
Nest Step: Collect other people who are in similar situation. Interview them and see how they thinks.
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