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Reflection on practical work

I have used passport photos where I have changed the density on the printer to have it from light to dark. my intention in creating this piece is linked to colourism how I took inspiration from Angèlica Dass showcasing how represents women of colour are not just one shade of colour​, and how mine is in contrast. Dass is that her work is based on race around different countries while mine is an experience where only women of colour experience living in London. the feelings I have for this artwork are anger and tiredness since colourism affects women of colour within thin their communities the anger is from the fact it Is people who are the same race and should have an understanding of what it feels when society is built against you. The tiredness I feel about the artwork is because colourism is never going to disappear r until racism does which means the younger generation will face hating their skin and want to project it onto others who look like them.

How I originally wanted it was acetated so it could be see-through so you can change throughout the images the colours/ ]tone is representing bleaching where people have the desire to be paler because they think it will make them more attractive and confident. What I feel like what was. the least effective was not the art piece itself but the placement of the artwork I feel as if it was very tacky as it is not all equal which is the downside but as well as it could add to the piece as are skin tones are not all equal .

Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Njideka Akunyili Crosby's artwork reminds me of an old family photo album that is slowly decaying, Crosby's artwork can be linked to artists such as Kudzanai-Violet Hwami I think the concept/ of the artwork makes it similar. The differences between Crosby's artworkare that she focuses on art historical, political, architectural spaces and personal references as well as the ideas about the transcultural identity flow back and forth, how it differs from mine is that my artwork is about the experiences of women of colour in London on specifically the bad rather than the well such as bleaching or colourism. Crosby's artworkis creating collages, charcoal, acrylic, pastel, loured pencil and photo transfer-base paintings what happens in her artwork is the negotiation of cultural terrain between her adopted home in America and her native home in Nigeria, the title of her artwork is ‘something split and new ‘ I think she has given this title is that ‘something’ in the title is her family and how she is going to marry someone who has a different background as her hence the ‘split’ and ‘new’ sinceshe leaving her family and starting a new one. Yes, because a viewer could interpret this it is just a photo of back people and one white person which could do with representation or identity.

The medium of her artwork is paintings depending on the art she does may us a singular colour for the whole piece but in the artwork, she uses colour she uses very bright and vibrant colours which can be eye-catching the colour of can be organised in a way how in her art piece you can see clearly what the painting is however, if you look closer she uses collages within the art piece which is similar to Nigerian clothing’s known as ‘native’. The shapes in the artwork are normal shapes (e.g., triangle square rectangles) for the objects she doesn’t try exaggerating the human bodies she has kept it the same of what a real body will look like in real life. The technique she uses is collages of photos of her family memories and it is blended into the artwork so it is something you would have to go up close. The artwork was made in 2013 it was made in courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro, London. Her artwork is for black people, black experiences, and black women. What I know about her is that she moved to America at the age of 16 where in 2004 is where her passion started to show going to Swarthmore college where she felt the need to tell her experiences as a Nigerian dysphoria through art after a few years she ended up marrying her husband in 2016 Justin Crosby who is also an artist.

I wanted to try doing a drawing that uses a ballpointpen because usually when trying to draw with a pen or any type of paint form you can alwaysrub it out or let it dry and painton top of it but with the ballpoint, once you have made that mark. I have chosen this picture as this is someone I grew up with who has made a massive impact on my life and what. I chose overlappinglines way to signify my theme as lined crosshatching reminds me of my heritage and also the African attireI wear in my culture.

This is linked to Njideka Akunyili Crosbywhere Joy Labinjo is also a British-Nigerian artist whose work focuses on issues such as identity, heritage, and belonging. Her paintings are lively and colourful, with portraits of real individualsas well as invented figures. Labinjo's use of bold patterns and vivid colours gives her pieces a sense of vitalityand movement. Paintings on a big scale that address themes of identity, family, and heritage, as well as individualsfrom her own life and experiences. Her art features vibrant and striking colours, patterns, and compositions, which are essential to Labinjo's style. EssentiallyLabinjo's practice is driven by a daring interest in narrative and, eventually,people's lives. Labinjo's "collageaesthetic" explores a variety of modes of representation,such as level of abstraction,naturalism,flatness, and visual patterns. These modes of representation echo her perceptions of various identitiesas a Black British Nigerian woman growing up in the 1990s and early 2000s. Her artwork is for is to celebrate "blackness" due to how white the population isshe described it as 'isolating'.

Barbra walker Is an artist who does colossal figurative drawings and paintings, frequently drawn directly onto the gallery walls, that often explore themes of documentation and recording, and erasure. What her artwork means is Barbara Walker has created a new body of drawings, a wall drawing, that reflects the stories and experiences of individuals and families affected by and a wall drawing the Windrush, scandal in the United Kingdom. Walker's realistic paintings and sketches portray modern tales based on historical events, making them understandable to all people and providing a human viewpoint on the world as it is today, both in her native Britain and overseas. Yet, if the viewer analyses these photographs with intuitive probing, they will quickly see the Black folks, most of whom travelled from colonies as inexpensive chattel to be left to famous people as gifts and beautiful artefacts. How it then changes the viewer's point of view is that in Walker's artwork Vanishing Point 24, they were frequently forced to pose with their captors in paintings the captors themselves commissioned, acting as instances of European extravagance in their presence. Black ladies were prominent themes in the famed old master painters' orientalist viewpoint, nominated as attendants to fairer women of taste that have ownership of riches, in private homes, harems, bathhouses, and marketplaces. Barbara Walker uses a variety of media, such as embossed works on paper, paintings, and largescale wall paintings, to challenge racially distorted myths and create alternative interpretations of the past.

The artwork was a technique that I haven't tried before that I think went well in the artwork I did was the refinement that you can see the figure to recognise that it’s a person the reason for this art technique is to showcase the imprint of history that I have impacted people and these images I have imprinted are either with my mum or by myself this is due to infer that within being lonely I was content with what I have but as I got older it I was faced with reality and the outline can infer my heritage and even though born in the UK and being here my whole life to some I would be considered just Nigerian as I am not pure British or not' British enough'

This is an artist response to Babara walker as another form of art technique I felt that could link to her artwork is mono printing I decided to do this as I have done it before and I like the outcome of the picture I have used is my own pictures from my early stages of life these pictures relate to my theme as I am a women colour and growing up in the united kingdom within most of these photos I am alone which links to exclusion of being different because of my background. What I think went well was the amount of ink that collected the detail of the artwork however, what I think could have been better was the colour as I think it's quite faint and does not show every detail as it is quite faint.

The plan for this is to do etching as the picture was really detailed and I wanted to capture it using this art technique with these photos rather than getting myself to criticise my art artwork and what I think about it I asked others where I asked how it made them feel as well as their thoughts on subjects such as racism, colourism and bleachinghow it has personallyaffected them.

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Kara Walker artist inspiration

American contemporary artist Kara Walker is renowned for her thought-provoking and contentious pieces that examine issues of racism, gender, sexuality, violence, and power. She was reared in Atlanta, Georgia after being exposed to the history of slavery and segregation there as a child. She was born in Stockton, California in 1969. Her artistic output was greatly inspired by this encounter. How she has inspired me by re-evaluating my work and looking back at it in ways I may have not seen before allowing me to add other developments such as the thread technique experiment. Her work has made me also take into account, not just social issues such as race but as well as gender by switching my perspective on the treatment that women of the colour face by the men in their community and how colourism individually effects these communities in various ways

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A Chinese saying that you look black which is interconnected with anti-blackness that often times with ethnic minorities equate being darkly skinned with being black and how it is a negative thing due to colonialism and how having fairer skin is seen as better People of colour, including immigrants, who have lighter skin tones are relatively better off than those who have darker skin tones in terms of wealth and revenue.

“She is dark-skinned, but look how generous she is.” “His complexion is almost pitch-black, but he must’ve done something right in the past life to have found such a beautiful, fair wife.

This is something that is commonly commented on within ethical minorities communities that having black skin is seen as you are beneath everyone and having your partner have fair skin is seen as an accomplishment and having dark skin is embarrassing and something one should be ashamed of when having darksin

You must look up to famous brown-skinned celebrities to feel better about yourself because “dark-skinned people can be successful too.” within south Asia when it comes to showing what really south Asia within television they usually use fairer people to play characters that can be seen as good and the hero but with dark skin people they are portrayedas evil and wicked

This video is about the extent to which people go to bleach their skin this is seen as a way to go up in the hierarchy of society where they would even put their life at risk just become lighter. This due to centuries of the beauty standard of how they praise people who have lighter skin and ridicule people who have darker skin.

The beauty standards have created this irony within 21st-century society as in the past there were colonial ties where their ideology of what was pretty was forced upon them whereas now these countries that colonised have a want to be darker but in Asia and in Africa being lighter is seen as always better and because it is always in their face they go to extreme lengths to achieve that light skin.

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This is revealing the number of people who bleach their skin which is s quite common and how there is a belief it is helping them 'fix' their appearance by getting lighter not realising the side effect of bleaching as it contains mercury and High levels of inorganic mercury exposure may harm the liver, nervous system, and gastrointestinal systems. Through the gastrointestinal tract, both inorganic and organic mercury are absorbed and have an impact on other organs. It is illegal to have these substances but they smuggle them and turn a blind eye when I walk into black hair stores there is a whole section dedicated to skin bleaching and different brands of it.

The term "you are pretty but for dark skin" is a term that is constantly used as a backhanded compliment because there is an assumption if you have darker skin you are automatically unattractive so things such as bleaching skin are way that you can be seen as 'pretty' but a lot of people are no aware of what bleaching contains and not realising how harmful and dangerous bleaching creams are but will go to any extent to achieve having fair skin however, what is ironic is that in the western world, there is want to have tan and curly hair while in Latin, African, Asian countries are still stuck in this timeline to have a want to have lighter skin.

Reflection on practical work to date

I started the comoponet 2 project thinking about the idea of the downside of what it means to be a woman of colour because often times we usually praise being a woman of colour but the downside of being a woman of colour such as colourism is not talked about enough and I wanted to showcase that through my artwork.

Now, 3 college weeks into the project my ideas have shifted work is now, specifically focused on the idea of colourism and how that affects what it does within communities.

The first artist I chose to respond to helped me to develop my ideas by doing mono-printing of friends of colour but the colour I used was the effect of what bleaching does to the skin and it opened a conversation of people bleach and why bleaching is affecting a lot of minorities and effects women the most.

The second artist helped me to develop my ideas by allowing me to go back to my own childhood and look at how colourism affected me as growing up in a very diverse environment than to someone who grows up in a white environment.

I faced the following obstacles/setback the quality of my artwork was not the best and I feel as if I am doing a repetition of the same process with my first and second artists.

The obstacles have, however, helped me to refine my work compared to my first mono-printing with my first artist you can see developments within my second artist's response.

Chila Kumari Singh Burman

• An artist who is both British and Asian, Chila Kumari Burman was born in Liverpool in 1957. Her mixed-media pieces that explore themes of identity, gender, and cultural heritage are what she is most well known for. Burman's art is frequently filled with bright colours, glitter, and kitschy materials like neon lights and plastic toys. Burman artwork the viewers could be reminded of lining up in a queue to get ice cream as a child the galaxy and festivals are considered quite bright and lively when it comes to her neon light work however when you see the title of her art e.g. My tuk tuk this shift the perspective to how reminds them of memories and the past which can also be considered quite vintage as nowadays it is quite rare to see an ice cream van so in a sense could be considered the nostalgia of having an ice cream van. The texture of her artwork can be seen as 3-D and have very eye-catching artwork that has the essence of a festival atmosphere.

Doing this artwork response was an experiment as I used a hot glue gun as the way it would come reminded me of the neon light used in her artwork and I chose to do the hair comb as it’s a universal object that everyone uses and uses these objects I had I traced their outer shape and use a hot glue gun what I think went well was that you recognise it is a comb but what I think the downside of this experiment is the trying to have control of the hot glue gun which made it messy however it can add to it as it shows how the aspect of being women of colour has the positive and the negative

Development

The reason For this artwork's development is to show the submerge of how women of colour have to conform to society an example of this is how wearing natural hair to a job interview may not land a person their job. The colours I have used are blue and green which represent a reflection of how when women of colour where their natural hair or bleach their skin its shows a. reflection of being proud of their heritage.

Christopher Wool artist inspirations

I have used him as an artist's inspiration as I wanted to use a string statement that looked simple but had a complex meaning behind the experiment I used different colours that represent colours that compliment people that have darker skin but the sentence is showcase skin bleaching and colourism how a person bleaches their skin and once they see the results they want to keep on bleaching but not realising the how bad it is for their skin but it has already become an addiction where they can't help and one the damages is done it is very hard to revert to their normal healthy skin. I did a development over overlapping the word over it to show that people are starting to realise how bad it is and trying to stop other from doing so however having said that when people walk into a back hair shop they have a whole section dedicated to skin bleaching which shows how embed skin bleaching is so deep into the community.

Experiments

I wanted to showcase texture and depth with this experiment to intricatedesigns within ethnic households a girl must know how to do 'feminine' attributes such as cooking, cleaning, bearing children and knowing how to thread not for themselves but for their husband. I have tried to use threads that are closer to the Skin tone but the viewer can still see the background picture still this is because to show wanting to keep up with the Western standard but still tied down to their ethnic tradition hence the thread on top to represent that no matter how much one would want to break through their sexist traditional valuesthey will alwaysbe somehow always tied down to their heritage and how they will have the responsibilitiesof not being a woman but a maid.

The development for this is using fabric the reason for this is because within my culture is used as a historical document toshowcase a person an event or even politics. It has been often used to convey important cultural information as well as often used as a role infestivals and ceremonies. This is an experiment with the pictures and fabric what I think went well is the colour of the fabric complementing it however I think the picture is not as clear as I would like it.

Inspiration plan for the exam outcome

The inspiration for this exam is my personal experience being a woman of colour, growing up in a family that immigrated to the Uk they have traditional values of what a woman should be and with the Western world trying to please friends the book I used was a math book as my family have the belief is that education is the only way in life to be successful and as the first born I have to set an example to my younger sibling. I have used younger pictures of myself to showcase my younger years I was happy but using the book is to show the reality and the responsibility when I get older due to the fact that when younger we are innocent and don’t have a care in the world but as we get older we start to realise the pressure of wanting to be the best version.