the practice project

INHERITANCE
2020

Dimensions Variable (96 x 120 in)

Materials: Acrylic on canvas, sari fabric, jute rope

The life of a ‘sari’ owned by a woman in India can be traced back generations, thus becoming a representation of culture, history, and family. The fabric connects daughter to mother and symbolizes the strength that we as women receive from the experience and life’s work of our mothers.

The installation acts as a juxtaposition of my history with the fabrics on top and my understanding of my culture through the abstract representation below, reclaiming the color pink and the feminine strength associated with it.

Through ‘Inheritance’, I claim the fierce history connecting generations, that my mother so generously passes on to me.

"Felix Miranda poses in front of the personalized ID he created as a participant in the Future IDs at Alcatraz project while holding up his
former prison-issued ID. Photo by Jear Keokham."

To display the film I want to make it interactive by adding a button that says yes, this button will not do anything but you feel be asked to keep pressing it.
The yes but will give affirmation to the audio in the video that keeps saying "i'm not like other girls.
Then the button will become less bright and will eventually not be possible to press. Then the character will grab the button. I like the idea of literally grabbing the button to reclaim it. This will happen to show the viewer that this idea of needing to be "not like other girls" will fade once there is nothing telling them that that's the way to go

"Who is a criminal? Who gets to decide what standards of conduct are deemed binding by the rest of the community, or what the punishment for breaking the standard should be? The where and when and how by which ideas of normal behavior and identity are established and enforced are complicated by myriad subtle, unnoticed, and unspoken human contexts. These are not just abstract questions: they have dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking real-life consequences.

The Future IDs at Alcatraz project makes publicly accessible the poignancy of such questions in particularly forceful ways. It does so by representing the aspirations and disappointments of scores of very real humans affected by the stigmatizing and restrictive norms of incarceration. Future IDs at Alcatraz was initiated by artist Gregory Sale, whose creative social practice has primarily engaged people with direct experiences of prison, jail, probation, and parole in interactive exchanges about the impacts of incarceration. The exhibition and a series of programs runs from February through October 2019 on the site of the notorious island-based Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary itself."

the practice project

In this short film I want to show my journey with the color blue, a push and pull of liking, disliking, being pressured to like and being pressured to dislike it. All to to be "not like other girls"
I added the not like other girl audio clips that i gathered from various tik tok videos, to amplify the feeling of confusing and pressure with identity, I also try to do this by the odd expressions and transformations of the characters.