To begin, the majority of my work I did over the past four months at Parsons\u00a0were mostly about “Self-Identity” or factors that correlate to “Myself.” The reason\u00a0behind it is because I was once lost and couldn’t find my true self (especially\u00a0about my sexuality.) The feelings of uncertain, startled, and frustrated are\u00a0emotions I will never forget, and those feelings really had a significant impact on\u00a0my early teenage years. However, the purpose my video is to demonstrate how\u00a0life being gay in our society can be painfully overwhelming because of words\u00a0people use to describe a person base on how they look, dress, their body\u00a0gesture, the way they talk, and their sexuality.\u00a0I believe my piece fits the given assignment because I’ve demonstrated with clarity, and directness and presence in the word that contains no “performativity” no effect, no putting on of a\u00a0character and instead presenting myself without effect through my body gestures\u00a0and the props that I used.<\/p>\n
Moreover, the use of sticky\u00a0notes\u00a0and\u00a0specifically\u00a0choosing to cover my entire face with them is a way to show the audience how\u00a0some people use words to label a person by their appearance and other factors\u00a0that describe the person the way they view that person. By using labels to\u00a0identify traits of a person there is an expectation the individual who has been\u00a0identified with these labels must behave a certain way – by doing so pressures a\u00a0person to project a character of themselves instead of expressing themselves\u00a0as they naturally are. Stereotyping, labeling, putting people in categories can\u00a0have the negotiate effect of influencing someone to perform as someone else\u00a0because they terrified of showing their true self to the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8988,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-8987","student-work","type-student-work","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-time","tag-embodied"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n