Evaluation of work

Putting up the exhibition :

I am happy with the positioning of my exhibition , the room is set out so that you curatre the room . I have 4 separate pieces and they are in different parts of the room, my work has a trend so you can tell which pieces are mine. i wanted it this way so that the different taboos were aproched separately rather than a oile of taboos that you have to handle at once. after looking at the exhibition up I am happier with my work as it is is in situe and I believe that it looks alot better presented .

Evaluation of all work :

 My aim at the start was to create a textile based installation aimed around taboos, after research and idea generating I decided to enlarge the taboos and create them cartoon looking in order for them to look inviting. the reason i used fabric because its not a harsh material and people will feel more comfotable around them with them being 'soft and cuddely'  I believe my work has the desired look i was aiming for. my work is aimed to make people accept the taboos. the artists i looked into most were oriana fox and sarah maples, they use the subject menstruation as thier theme.

Flowers Surrounding death Photoshop image

I created this 1using photoshop, all of the flowers represent death or things surrounding death, such as soorrow and grif. i though it would be good to usee flowers as it shows that things that are pretty should be remembered and flowers die all the time , i sused research from ' orphelia' because in this the atrstist uses the flowers to symbolise different things.

After i had created the image i went back and added shading but didnt think this looked as good as the bold one. I didnt want the image to look realistic in anyway.

letting this wether in a handmade plastic protector made from a plastic wallet is my intention for one of final pieces

Should you be allowed to put roadside memorials there ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17151846

 this is a link to a news video on roadside memorials and should they be allowed after a 30 day period ?

 

It is becoming increasingly common to drive past roadside memorials dedicated to those who have died.

For many leaving flowers and cards at the scene has become part of the grieving process.

But now some councils are deciding to impose time limits on these impromptu tributes.

Against roadside memorials:

1. A memorial can create a hazard, distracting passing motorists.
2. The placement and maintenance of memorials can in itself involve a road safety risk.
3. A religious memorial is best placed in a religious setting, e.g. a churchyard or cemetery.
4. Memorials, plaques or signs (eg Remember Me - RoadPeace) placed on the highway, on a wall or existing street furniture may add to clutter.
5. There are insurance and liability issues in the event of an accident occurring as a result of a driver being distracted.
6. A memorial may interfere with routine maintenance such as grass-cutting.

For Roadside Memorials:

1. The laying down of flowers can be an important part of the grieving process and people should be allowed to express their grief in this way.
2. A memorial can act as a warning to road users of the possible dangers of the location

Other Relevant Factors

1. The Highways Act 1980 has no express provision to license or permit memorials on the highway.
2. There are legal traffic signs specifically to warn of potential hazards.
3. Roadside memorials are a relatively recent development in the UK, there is no tradition or deep cultural reason supporting this practice.
4. There is a difference between laying down flowers and creating a permanent memorial and the judgement as to what is a reasonable time for floral tributes can only be subjective.
5. A bench or tree with a small dedication may be an acceptable permanent memorial as long as there are no road safety implications.
6. The visual impact of memorials will be different in rural and urban locations
7. There is a view that placing memorials on the highway is maudlin and unhealthy.Could distract road users.

could be seen as unessacery clutter to the environment !!

Road Saftly

Could distract other road users

Maintinance:

Continuing cost, plus safety risk to maintenance operative.

No impact on Congestion and Accesability



Roadside Memorials

looking at theses, this is another way that people cope with death, putting flowers against the roadside of where people died. most of the time when you see them at the side of the road the images, itams and flowers seem to have weathered and rotted . only for the first couple of days is the memorial healthy looking .

Ophelia by John Everett Millais

In this painting the artist uses flowers to symbolise different things. when looking at it you wouldn't know that the painting had deeper meaning but i really like how he has done this and added something else to it . within my work i aim to use flowers to symbolise death. death is seen as something horrible and i want to change this by using flowers as they are seen to be pretty and colourful..

Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their old rural traditions, some survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings. New symbols have also arisen: one of the most known in the United Kingdom is the red poppy as a symbol of remembrance of the fallen in war and some display white poppies, also for remembrance and to show opposition to warfare.

Plant	Meaning	Region or culture
Bamboo	longevity, strength, and grace	China
Green willow	false love	Britain
Jasmine	love	Hinduism
Lily	purity, chastity, and innocence	Western Europe
Mistletoe	used to signify a meeting place where no violence could take place	Druids

Period: The End of Menstruation,

A sjort film about women who take the pill to stop their periods, they have strong opinions on the fact we were made to menstruate and people are happy to divert the course of nature .

http://www.periodthemovie.com - PERIOD: THE END OF ...

www.periodthemovie.com

If Men Could Menstruate

A white minority of the world has spent centuries conning us into thinking that a white skin makes people superior - even though the only thing it really does is make the more subject to ultraviolet rays and to wrinkles. Male human beings have built whole cultures around the idea that penis envy is "natural" to women - though having such an unprotected organ might be said to make men vulnerable, and the power to give birth makes womb envy at least as logical.

In short, the characteristics of the powerful, whatever they may be, are thought to be better than the characteristics of the powerless - and logic has nothing to do with it.

What would happen, for instance, if suddenly, magically, men could menstruate and women could not?

The answer is clear - menstruation would become an enviable, boast-worthy, masculine event:

Men would brag about how long and how much.

Boys would mark the onset of menses, that longed-for proof of manhood, with religious ritual and stag parties.

Congress would fund a National Institute of Dysmenorrhea to help stamp out monthly discomforts.

Sanitary supplies would be federally funded and free. (Of course, some men would still pay for the prestige of commercial brands such as John Wayne Tampons, Muhammad Ali's Rope-a-dope Pads, Joe Namath Jock Shields - "For Those Light Bachelor Days," and Robert "Baretta" Blake Maxi-Pads.)

Military men, right-wing politicians, and religious fundamentalists would cite menstruation ("men-struation") as proof that only men could serve in the Army ("you have to give blood to take blood"), occupy political office ("can women be aggressive without that steadfast cycle governed by the planet Mars?"), be priest and ministers ("how could a woman give her blood for our sins?") or rabbis ("without the monthly loss of impurities, women remain unclean").

Male radicals, left-wing politicians, mystics, however, would insist that women are equal, just different, and that any woman could enter their ranks if she were willing to self-inflict a major wound every month ("you MUST give blood for the revolution"), recognize the preeminence of menstrual issues, or subordinate her selfness to all men in their Cycle of Enlightenment. Street guys would brag ("I'm a three pad man") or answer praise from a buddy ("Man, you lookin' good!") by giving fives and saying, "Yeah, man, I'm on the rag!" TV shows would treat the subject at length. ("Happy Days": Richie and Potsie try to convince Fonzie that he is still "The Fonz," though he has missed two periods in a row.) So would newspapers. (SHARK SCARE THREATENS MENSTRUATING MEN. JUDGE CITES MONTHLY STRESS IN PARDONING RAPIST.) And movies. (Newman and Redford in "Blood Brothers"!)

Men would convince women that intercourse was more pleasurable at "that time of the month." Lesbians would be said to fear blood and therefore life itself - though probably only because they needed a good menstruating man.

Of course, male intellectuals would offer the most moral and logical arguments. How could a woman master any discipline that demanded a sense of time, space, mathematics, or measurement, for instance, without that in-built gift for measuring the cycles of the moon and planets - and thus for measuring anything at all? In the rarefied fields of philosophy and religion, could women compensate for missing the rhythm of the universe? Or for their lack of symbolic death-and-resurrection every month?

Liberal males in every field would try to be kind: the fact that "these people" have no gift for measuring life or connecting to the universe, the liberals would explain, should be punishment enough.

And how would women be trained to react? One can imagine traditional women agreeing to all arguments with a staunch and smiling masochism. ("The ERA would force housewives to wound themselves every month": Phyllis Schlafly. "Your husband's blood is as sacred as that of Jesus - and so sexy, too!": Marabel Morgan.) Reformers and Queen Bees would try to imitate men, and pretend to have a monthly cycle. All feminists would explain endlessly that men, too, needed to be liberated from the false idea of Martian aggressiveness, just as women needed to escape the bonds of menses envy. Radical feminist would add that the oppression of the nonmenstrual was the pattern for all other oppressions ("Vampires were our first freedom fighters!") Cultural feminists would develop a bloodless imagery in art and literature. Socialist feminists would insist that only under capitalism would men be able to monopolize menstrual blood . . . .

In fact, if men could menstruate, the power justifications could probably go on forever.

If we let them.

i don't know if i agree with this because surely if men were to menstruate maybe they would be just as secretive as we are. who knows .... maybe we get our nature because we menstruate. but the theory sounds correct working on the males of today