Next stop: Naturism

The problem statement for my next project is taking form. I will be writing it with a fellow student and we will look at how art and advertisement change the female body ideal and how we might get back to a more realistic sense of how we look and should look. She will be looking into art and I will be looking into live modelling and naturism as ways of getting back into an immediate relationship to oneself.

I am starting to think about places to get data and who it might be good to interview.

Projects are always interesting in an intercultural education like mine – and at the same time tricky because Stuart Hall gets in the way. Well, not Stu himself but the idea that one can send out something with the best of intentions but if the receiver is not close enough to you in a cultural sense, your preferred reading of your intentions can be turned into an opposing understanding. I am hoping this time it will be a bit simpler to land on something that we can be happy with and that the process can be a bit more pleasant, too.

It’s going to be great fun though, I know it. The project topic is one that really matters to me.