Hola, Readers!
So lately, the GirlSpeak staff and I have been working on a visual art piece that incorporates each of the ways that we as young women have been opressed. One of our mentors decided that it would be interesting and unique for us to take long pieces of fabric and write text that expresses these forms of oppression onto these fabric strips.
Many of the GirlSpeak members wrote poems or journal entries that dealt with this concept. The process of creating these "fabric film strips" surprisingly involved a lot of time and, to our disappointment, usage of simple mathematics to calculate how the text would fit onto the strips. This involved counting each character that our text composed of and by dividing that number by the lengths of the strips that we were using.
Some of us will be wrapping this fabric around certain parts of our bodies that are related to our writing pieces. Kush, for instance, created a mask that was molded out of her own faces with paper mache. She also created a frame for this mask and, inside of it, she pasted random letters that she cut out to form her writing piece.
Sure, this project was very timely but in the end, we had the chance to powerfully address our emotions through text. We also planned how we each want to incorporate this text-covered fabric into pictures that a professional photographer will be taking of us (which is exciting 'cause few of us had the privelege to ever be photographed by a pro!).
These pics will be up on our blog most likely by Thursday or Friday of this week, since they will be taken on Thursday afternoon. So keep checking up on us to see those soon!
Peace,
Anita
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