2025｜AP 2-D Art & Design and AP Drawing｜SI#1 Sketch and Writing (OLD)
- Title
- SI#1
- Size
- 19cm*26.5cm
- Medium
- Sketchbook
Artist Statement
My sustained investigation aims to explore how history can be reportrayed to critique and highlight the injustice within historically longstanding gender roles. Through illustrating historical male figures as the women they have wronged, or reimagining power structures between genders using historically religious symbols, I aspire to question the traditional patriarchal narrative of women's identities, significance, and visibility through reversing or amplifying gender expectations. I intend to use repeating religious hallmarks to reflect the continuous and seemingly permanent social constructs that marginalize women, incorporating them into juxtaposing contexts to reinterpret gender roles.
This piece attempts to portray Anne Boleyn in Henry VIII's clothes, garments that are blatantly too big for her. This reflects and symbolizes the exaggerated and unachievable standards that the patriarchy has set for women since the early days of what is considered modern civility. I intend to use coffee, gesso, and sketching paper for my medium. The gesso and coffee juxtapose each other in terms of modernity. Coffee is a substance that stretches all the way back to ancient civilizations, while gesso is a relatively new substance. The contrast parallels how longstanding social gender structures, in a similar fashion to longstanding coffee drinking habits, have stretched past time and space into modern times, where gesso exists. Thus, the incorporation of seemingly clashing elements reflects the continuous nature of the patriarchy.