Fall 2008
Digital Prints
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"-... most black people refer to the area of hair on the back of the neck as the "kitchen." If a woman has straight hair there she has a clean kitchen, if the hair course or nappy she has a "dirty" kitchen. This work is just a look at the wide range of "kitchens." it was an attempt to remove all the other politics of the female body to focus strictly on the hair, and it's affects on femininity, sexuality, beauty and race."
Is this an an ad campaign in the making or what!? https://sites.google.com/site/mayuradocs/PinIt.png
3 comments:
I never heard it referred to as "clean" versus "dirty." I thought it only got called kitchen if it was unkempt. Or maybe it's not mentioed if it's up to par, and gets called out as the kitchen when it's not quite right.
I was always taught that all kitchens were bad...the worst part of your hair...maybe that's cause my hair was never really straight...even when I got it straightened, my kitchen rebelled...
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