Performance Art Two: Dress for Success

Performance Art Video

For this assignment, I decide to write degrading words on my body, to show how critical of ourselves the world has made us. The point of this video is to ask the viewer, "When do we come to the realization, that the only way for us to be happy is to love ourselves no matter how we look?" 

Flip Book

Grid Project

For my grid project I did cross-stitch.  Cross-stitch is a form of counted thread

embroidery in which x-shaped stitches are used to form a picture.  Counted cross-stitch transfers

a design from a printed graph onto a weave fabric.   This fabric is called aida cloth.  Embroidery

thread is used to place x’s on the fabric corresponding to symbols on the chart.  You first do a

row of half stitches (///) then you work back (\\\) to complete the x’s.  You count the threads in

each direction so that the stitches are of uniform size.  This is called counted cross-stitch.  Each

symbol on the chart represents one x on the fabric.  The different styles of symbols on the chart

represent different colors of thread.  Cross-stitch projects are worked from a gridded pattern. 

Cross-stitch is the oldest form of embroidery.

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Technology Over the Years

                  Technology has evolved over the years.  To get a message to someone, has changed drastically with advanced technology.  To send a message across the country years ago was done by pony express and took days for the person to receive it.  Then the invention of the telegraph made sending a message easier.  When the telephone was introduced, communication amongst individuals became much easier.  With the telephone, people were able to communicate verbally with each other and not have to write it down.  Instead of taking days to get your message to someone, now just took picking up the phone and dialing.  Then the television came which included not only audio but visual communication.  With the drastic advancement in technology a person now can communicate with an individual across the country in mere seconds.

From Shadows to Film: Time Based Media

​Art can be expressed in many different ways.  Through different types of media, a person can express their point of view or tell a story.  This is shown in the Indonesian culture with “Wayang Kulit”.  These puppets, that are intricately cut, perform a story with the use of oil lamps that flicker shadows through the cutouts.  No words need to be spoken for a story to be told with the use of these puppets.

​When movies first came out, no words were spoken in the films.  People were still able to understand what was being expressed in the film.  Since the snapshot or film was invented, high tech media has been invented to better express stories and show experiences of individuals.  With the use of these different types of media, stories can be passed down from generation to generation.