Identity: What makes me who I am

Materials Used:

Rope
handmade labels
Tissue Paper
Ink
sharpie

Artist Statment:

My identity project represents what I think I am and how a view myself as well as what society see's in me as an African American women and my viewpoints on how my family sees me. In a world in which we judge someone before we even have a conversation with them has always fascinated me. As an African American women, and that fact that I have people tell me that don't live up to the standers of being into or pour so I am not a true African American woman. The stereotypes that society puts on African American women are in red. In blue, I put what I think my family views me as. I believe that how someone believes their family views them plays a big role in how they view them selfs. I personally come from a very supportive family so I used words that were told to me by my family members.
I used the rope to represent my past heritage in slavery. I choose the rope as the frame because if it was in for slavey I would not have ever been born and It might be hurtful past to think about but my heritage will always form who I am and what I become. I picked tissue paper because of all of the words that might be said are so delicate and thin but it still has the capabilities to block the true me form showing through. I use labels because all the words that are used are labels in them selfs that people have put on me and I put on my self.

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