Liberation, force, honesty, authentic, creative, loud, dynamic, society, personal, vivid.

I decided to use a piece I recently painted named “Dirty Baby” to best represent my practice. The image is conveying how society can change the meaning of a word to mean something completely opposite, for example in this piece baby can be defined as a human being, new-born, innocent and pure. Then society has manipulated the word to mean a more sexual connotation that one may call a partner; a dirtier version. I also used the colours blue and pink to represent the stereotypes associated with the genders when a child is born; pink for female and blue for male. I then merged these colours together which created a purple that expressed a neutral version of these gender stereotypes. So my piece was challenging gender roles in our society, which covers some of my choice of words quite accurately.

This image was an accurate representation of my project so far as a lot of my work contains the subjects of breaking stereotypes and gender roles, so this images concept is one way I have been exploring these subjects, while also still strongly highlighting what my artwork is about currently.