For my final piece, I created a stack of cards of ‘things to remember’ in relation to manners’ for both women and men. My point I am communicating is the women’s stack is considerably bigger than the mens, explaining my insights that manners are more expected and pressured onto women.
I used punctuation as symbols to group and categorise my cards. The commas explain the never ending rules for women and a full stop shows how it’s quite self explanatory for men. Another piece I’m presenting as part of my final piece is my photography of a women wearing all the questions cards, completely drowned in them. This was a playful way I art-directed a stack and portrays the scale of how many things women subconsciously ingrain into their daily lives.
These images show some experimental photography, card designs and my ‘table cloth publication’ – when I was looking into the table as a stage where manners are performed. The musical chair photo about how to sit like a lady. The card designs initiated from previous testing with punctuation, I liked the idea of them weaving a sense of manners into text.