The Beauty That Was Always There
My final project is about Sexual Assault Awareness, I chose this because after an assault no one feels the same. It is hard to find yourself again as well as love your body again and you may blame yourself for the assault. "On average, there are 463, 634 victims (age 12 or older) of rape and sexual assault each year in the United States." This is crazy to even think about how 463, 634 victims of rape and sexual assault each year! "An estimated 32.2% of multiracial women, 27.5% of American Indian/Alaska Native women, 21.2% of non-Hispanic black women, 20.5% of non-hispanic white women, and 13.6% of Hispanic women were raped during their lifetimes (Black et al., 2011). My point is that you should not blame yourself for something you could not control. This goes for you males and females, it is going to be hard to get intimate with your future partner because all you will think about is the event that happened to you. What I did was that I cast a person who was a victim of sexual assault as seen below in the pictures and it was tough for her during the whole process. Why I chose this form is to show yourself your body and to see it is beautiful even after everything you have been through.
In a way my cousin and I have bonded while doing the casting together because she felt safe around someone she didn't think would ever happen. At the bottom of the cast I put the word happiness because you yourself should be your only source of happiness. Do whatever makes you happy, treat your body like if it were a temple and take of yourself. There are people around you who are willing to help you go through that process with you. Being bare skin to someone who is fully clothed is okay because that person will take care of you and won't hurt you. "Choosing to violate another person is not about “drinking too much,” “trying to have a good time,” or ”getting carried away,” nor is it about the clothes someone was wearing, how they were acting, or what type of relationship they have with the person who abused them. Violating another person is a choice."
Video 1
https://youtube.com/shorts/27CdN3IJzr0?feature=share
Video 2
https://youtube.com/shorts/3pM927OgAmU?feature=share
Tanya Aguiniga inspired me to create my own project because she creates art that only inspires her own life but for others to relate too. Like one of her protects were: La Frontera - The Border: An Interdisciplinary Examination was being post cards of people who crossed the border going north about their experience. In a sense those post cards come off as life experience how privilege we are to have the things we have right now. She is creating that awareness for those people know that what they have right now to not take for granted. As well as life of person who was raised in Mexico and having to cross the border to go to school in the United States. That life was not easy being called the kid that has to cross the border every day to get to school. She is a passionate person about her work and that's exactly how I feel about doing this final project. I want to help people and let them know they are not alone and its okay to feel whatever they are feeling.
In the two videos is the casting of the two different casting, one where we just threw the flowers on top of the cast and the second is where we placed the flowers to our liking. The point is that the cast still looks beautiful regardless of how you set the flowers, your body is beautiful the way it is. The casting is easy to do at home and it do with a close friend or loved one. It is all about the experience and learning more about your body. In a way the flowers and leaves represent the positive thoughts or things your love about yourself. What makes you, you and its the parts you love the most. All everyone wants to be is happy in their lives and it first starts within ourselves. We have to make that decisions to make that change happen in the real life, slowly but surely. It does get better at the end of the tunnel and wait for those better days coming soon. Do search for help it is not healthy to keep it all bottled up, or maybe write about it. The person I did one of the casts she was a victim and out of respect I will not say her name. I did not know that happened to her and once I found out I searched up ways on how to talk to her. It is a difficult topic to even get someone to open up about but I was just there for her and letting her know I'm there for her. I told her it wasn't her fault and no way for that to be avoid, now she has two beautiful kids and a wonderful husband. Life did get better for her without her knowing it and if she needed anything I would be there for her.
References
https://www.rainn.org/statistics/victimssexual-violence
https://www.nsvrc.org/about-sexual-assault
http://www.tanyaaguiniga.com/exhibitions#/la-frontera-the-border-an-interdisciplinary-examination/
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