Piece of design/work made by a Black woman.

Shoe lover by Lorna Simpson (From the polaroid book)

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Piece of design/work made by a public/community or doesn't have a clear author

Beschilderd kauwgom in de nieuwe binnenweg in 2017 (From the street)

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That is made by a queer person

Paris is burning - Jennie Livingston (I saw it a while ago, was recommended it by a classmate)

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made by a minority in the country in which you live (or grew up in) (this could be you)

Candy smoke by Ewa Cwikla (A polish photographer)(via internet)

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That is made by somebody who is not able-bodied

Disability After Dark by Andrew Gurza (A podcast a friend told me about)

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After reading a bit about Lorna Simpson, I found out that a lot of the (early) work she made raised attention about social subjects. These subjects included representation, identity, gender and race. As Lorna is a black woman, I can imagine that a lot of these works came from own experiences. My relation to this artist is that I have had very different experiences in my life. As a white woman I am in a privileged position and looking back at the works I’ve made in the past years, race hasn’t really been a subject in them. It is very important to talk about representation though, and that’s why it’s very important for me to be inspired by all different types of artist and not just the ones that I can personally identify with because they look like me.

As an Audiovisual Design Student I personally really love documentaries with social subject combined with interesting and experimental visual language. After seeing Paris is burning, it gave me a lot of inspiration because it was exactly what I liked. So in the sense of makership I feel a strong connection with Jennie Livingston.

In the Netherlands I have been in situations so many times where I’ve heard people making ‘jokes’ about polish people. There’s this very negative stigma about polish people which is awful, that’s why for this one I googled for polish artists and came across Ewa Cwikla. This picture of a little girl smoking a cigarette really grabbed my attention because of the ambience in the picture. It reminds me of a very old painting. I’ve read that she makes these types of pictures to capture peace in such a hectic world.

A friend of mine sent me podcast episode a while back from f**ks given. In this episode the two hosts interviewed Andrew Gurza, who is a sex educator who has a own podcast and he is also disabled. They spoke about how A lot of people don’t really talk about having sex as a or with a disabled person as it is kind of a taboo subject. When listening to this I realized I too never really thought or spoke about this subject as a abled person. Andrew wants to educate people more about these subjects and speaks about them in his own podcast as well called disability after dark. I think this is super important to make conversations about sex inclusive for everybody.

With this one I can’t really speak about my relation to a specific maker of the piece because it was a group who painted all the chewing gums on the street, but maybe that is also something to discuss. Sometimes maybe I shouldn’t be too focused on my name hanging on a piece I’ve made. I mean of course it’s nice to get recognition for a piece that you’re proud of. But making something with a big group, and being part of this can also be rewarding. It’s more about the satisfaction of the act than the result in this case I think.

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