Project 1 - Looking back

I would like to take a little time to reflect on what I learned and how I feel about project 1. The modern idea of gender is very hard for me to discuss. I tend to work from a very historical perspective when I think of gender expression. Initially I began my process by siting down with the book Sex, Gender, and Kinship by Carol R. Ember, Burton Pasternak, and Melvin Ember. I was also heavily influenced by my current readings on the anthropology of death.

 In death people often find themselves only represented by those they left behind. The living preform the rituals of death and this often includes the selection of material goods to be interred with the body. Today in America that typically consists of the selection of grave clothes, but in many cultures the dead have been sent with more than just clothing to the afterlife.

I tried to express this complex relationship in this sculpture but felt that I was overall unsuccessful in my attempt.