Hold Your Head Up AND See Your Heroic-Self
Abstract
this project is about a sculptural adornment…
a sculptural adornment worth to be placed on the neck of Woman that shades
her Goddess-hood…a wearable sculpture with its vigorous forms, reflecting
all that life force of hers as a reminder of her powerful female body…a mirror
to the mind, a medium for self-realisation through a nonverbal cue, the
posture of power…
this project is about a trope of shield…
a shield that embraces the inner power of the female body, once detected by
men and then sinked into the darkness…the darkness of silence, the darkness
of violence, the darkness of being a prisoner of her own body, own rage and
being projected as monstrous…a shield that cuts the silence of darkness and
comes back to life on the Woman's neck…
this project is about revising the old myth…
revising the old myth of the snake-headed Medusa that has been repeated
itself over centuries as a threat to the male gaze…revising the old myth and
tell the true story in order to embrace the beautiful laughing Medusa again in
each of us, as Women…
Degree
Student essay
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Date
2020-10-19Author
Aycan, Nihan
Keywords
Medusa
Goddess-hood
The Female Body
The Posture of Power
Nonverbal Cues
Self-realisation
Self-empowerment
Conceptual Jewellery
Sculptural Adornment
Wearable Sculpture
Language
eng