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4. Quick Challenges
5. Idea #1
Idea #2
Final Product
Plaything, pastels, chalk, and yarn on paper, 6ft 8in x 1ft 9in
In my work, Plaything, I wanted to make a piece discussing women's bodily autonomy. As a woman, I've often felt that others seem to believe that they deserve to have control over my body, whether it be the government controlling what I can and cannot do with my own vessel, or men who believe I owe them to look a certain way, or feel as though they have the right to use my body for their own pleasure. The marionette does not have control of herself; her every movement is determined by a puppeteer. The white chalk and pastel are soft and dainty, just like her. The circle below her is her stage from which she cannot escape. The marionette hangs and waits for her puppet master, she cannot be allowed to function on her own.
