how do we as a group in our project show/bring to light how fashion externally and psychologically damages or perception of skin? what kind of project would do this? Natural Beauty (nature X skin colour ex: brown person lies in soil) yellow-sun / brown-soil / white-cloud / black-night/ -Red roses --> beautiful (blue, white….) fruits (skins, flesh) (ex. grapes, apples, pear, papaya, flowers (ex. roses, tulips, chrysanthemums) Foods/Drinks (beer, coffee, coke, hot chocolate, milk tea, ice tea… ) leaves, sun, sky -skin tone post it notes on mannequins (on one manne a person puts the sticky note of their true colour on another their prefered tone.) - mannequin photo shoot with “food”/ melting into skin toned foods
All skin colours are beautiful. Beauty is Diversity.
colorISM
Media and society today promote certain skin colors that are percieved to be ‘beautiful’. Please help us understand the idea of colorism and elimiante the notion of labeling the status of men and women in terms of their skin color . This project involves the OCADU demographic-student/ faculty to connect their own skin tone to the one they perceive. There are diffrent coloured makers which representing different decents, you can choose appropriately to which you originated from. EX.
QESTION1 QESTION2
1. what shade are you?
2. which shade have you ever prefered to be EUROPEAN DESCENT MULTI- DESCENT SOUTH ASIAN DESCENT MIDDLE EASTERN DESCENT ABORIGINAL AFRICAN DESCENT EAST ASIAN DESCENT
RESOURCES: -http://www.moorizzlasays.com/?p=586 (Slavery legacy…) http://vimeo.com/16210769 -Perceptions of and Preferences for Skin Color, Black Racial Identity, and Self-Esteem Among African Americans http://www.uncg.edu/hdf/facultystaff/Coard/Publications/Perceptions%20and%20Preferences%20for%20Skin%20Color.pdf