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In week1's Tutorial I presented and shared my initial thoughts about the Major project, such as: topics I am interested in, research directions I specialise in, and themes I have researched in my previous works. I reflected and explored new things, I recorded and started to think out of the box about what I am usually thinking about.

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In the tutorial I wrote down two sentences to illustrate what I was going to do:

To explore Inequality in the written word.

To express and create Equal Media.

Afterwards in studio lab I did some reflecting on my current ideas and next plans, asking questions and writing reflective answers, which helped me to carry on with the next steps

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Feminist

Equalpay

Sisterhood

Powerful

Women's Workshop

Protest

Revolting

Women's Liberation

Patriarchal Society

Housework

Childbirth

Body

Marriage

Lesbian

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In week1's tutorial when I shared my ideas then I received some feedback from audiences. These researches I looked after gave me inspiration on my project.

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Experimental Mono-printing in Professional Photography 

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Experimental Mono-printing in Professional Photography 

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Experimental Mono-printing in Professional Photography 

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Experimental Mono-printing in Professional Photography 

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Experimental Mono-printing in Professional Photography 

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A folder include all Monoprints Testing Process here

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Through the previous sentences I wrote: 'To explore Inequality in the written word', and my thinking about the unfair treatment/unequal discourse of women in the social rules, I investigated and searched for words and phrases based on the cultural system of my background, which were created based on the word 'female' in a lot of Chinese language in China, these words and phrases are basically used to insult and degrade women, to abuse, to humiliate, to demean women, and were created specifically to express insults, and while we talk and preach about the greatness of the Chinese language, I find it sad and ironic that so many of the words and phrases that we have been using to humiliate women, and to make women fundamentally and subconsciously treated unfairly, when we learnt how to use the language as children, and that we can't change it and that we can't change the way we use it. We have been subconsciously influenced to the extent that when we try to find words and phrases that insult men by using the word 'male', the result is that no such expression exists.

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A folder include all Monoprints Testing Process here

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Based on the reflection and exploration of words, I try to use my own hand to write these words and phrases created specifically to insult women, this is what I do with some common sense, this helps me to learn about the culture, to understand that there are still social injustices against women that are real, that are grounded, that are deep down, and this keeps me reflecting and diffusing on what I should do about it, and at the same time, I think that time will make people forget, just like me If I hadn't researched this specifically I would only know some of the words that insult women, some of them are no longer used, so does this history not exist, can these harms to women be wiped out, I don't think so.

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Notes on reading the book 'Feminism from Scratch' by Chizuko Ueno

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Keywords Translation:

High School Boom

Little Hottie Culture

compensated dating

Child prostitution

Original Lingerie

Getting married and having kids

Mothers to their daughters

External Enemy - Patriarchal Society

Time gap - people treat women differently

Working women = non-mainstream

Good women who fulfil their mother's wishes

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After reading 'Feminism from Scratch' by Chizuko Ueno: In her book based on her background culture, Japan, she made me understand that women need to conform to society no matter what era they are in, and they need to choose between what they want to be and what society requires them to be. She made me realise that no matter what era a woman is in, she has to choose between what she wants to be and what the society requires her to be, which made me feel that it is not easy for women and that the society is not fair to women. Both before and now, we are bound by what society tells us to do, and if we don't conform, we are out of the mainstream and will be treated differently and suffer from the lack of understanding from our parents and family. It made me think about what women are? Who are we? Our bodies, our thoughts, our behaviours and actions are always constrained by our parents and patriarchal society, our bodies and thoughts should be free, women have absolute power over their bodies and thoughts, based on these thoughts I started to explore and develop this project.

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Reflective Thinking: The Chinese Writing System

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Reflective Thinking: The Chinese Writing System

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In Chinese, there are two types of characters: monomorphemic characters, which can express a meaning on their own, e.g. '女' for female and '男' for male. A composite character is a combination of two or more separate characters to express a single meaning, and one of the separate characters is called a radical. Usually, when we see a Chinese character, we can tell the general meaning of the character by its radical, and we can also tell whether the character is a female or a male description.

In Chinese, the character '女' is very commonly used as a radical, for example, the character '她' contains the radical '女', which means 'she', while the character '男' is not used as a radical at all, which means 'he', the radical of 'he' is '亻', and the meaning of this radical is to refer to human beings in general, so the meaning is that the male is the first sex in the society, and gender inequality has already appeared in this case, which is a very typical and widely used character in life.

Even more so, for example, the characters I am researching now, with the radical '女' female, such as: 婊(whore), 奴(slave), 嫉(cynicism), 妒(jealousy), 娱(amusement), 耍(play), 妓(prostitute), 娼(whore) and more. The meanings of these words are all very bad, and many of them are swear words used to abuse women and are insulting to women. But the most unequal manifestation of this is the expression of the meaning of the word for the neutral, no clear gender pointing words, the use of the radicals is indeed 'female' radicals. For example, when we say '娱' meaning entertainment, a word with no gender reference, but the Chinese character '娱' uses '女' as a radical, it means that women are treated as entertainment, and entertainment is carried out and occurs on the basis of women, and women are the objects of entertainment. There are so many such expressions and applications in Chinese that even in the words and phrases for cursing people, the character '女' is used as the radical, so now when we use abusive words for men, we use words that are meant to be used specifically for abusing women, and we can't find them, and there are no words or phrases in Chinese that insult men at all. This is a very ridiculous and extremely unfair phenomenon, and I think it is a very good illustration of the unfair treatment of women in society.

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A folder include Embossing Testing Process here

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A folder include Embossing Testing Process here

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A folder include Embossing Testing Process here

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Through the Monoprint, I have written words and phrases that are not fair to women, I do this because I want to use my own hands to write in a tangible and real way, words have power, I use my own hands to write words with unfairness, to feel the sadness and anger that the inequality makes me feel, this is the first time to experiment with the idea of a major project, and I ask myself to feel it myself instead of just knowing the history. I asked myself to feel it and not just to know the history. The process of writing and using my brain to feel and see, read and understand the words over and over again was powerful, it brought me into the process, it made it impossible for me to stay out of it, it made me feel it in a real way, it was a real and powerful experience of inequality that was happening to women.

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Idea Development & Experimental & Reflection

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Idea Development & Experimental & Reflection

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Through my previous research and exploration, I extended and experimented with embossing printing techniques to create the visual expression '匀出个弟弟‘ (Make way for your soon-to-be-born brother), meaning that the family or parents, at least one and more family members wish to 'beg' for a boy, usually the first or second or third child has been a girl. A boy, usually the first or second or third child has been born a girl, even in China many families are required to wife to give birth to a boy until, if it has been born a girl to be born, so the choice to have been born to the girl named '娣' (The word means brother, but with the addition of the word '女 woman') or the name contains '匀' (Cede for), '盼' (Hope for), these are all expressions of their anticipation and hope for the birth of a boy. The most humiliating thing is to name a girl '匀' (Cede for), because they think it is the girl who is blocking the birth of a boy, and they pray that the next child will not be a girl, to make way for a younger brother.

So based on my research and thinking, I experimented with embossing printing techniques to emphasise it, to make it focused, to visually accentuate and emphasise it, also including the colours I chose which are red and black on top of it, but not cover all around, what I wanted to express is that these patriarchal attitudes engraved in the bones of the Chinese people, the inequality of women, and the use of them in women's names, so that the girl lives in an environment where she is not needed and not valued, is a permanent stigma. I would say this is not history, this should not be forgotten, this is pain, bleeding pain, they are used and real, and only when it is looked at straight on, the ugliness and the dross is seen and valued by society can it truly be addressed.

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Experimental Embossing Printing in Professional Photography 

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Experimental Embossing Printing in Professional Photography 

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A folder include Photo Lithography Workshop Learning Process 

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A folder include Linocut Workshop Learning Process 

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A folder include Intaglio Workshop Learning Process 

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During the workshop I was also thinking about and using this opportunity to experiment with my Major Project, so when I learnt about Induction in the Intaglio workshop I took the written text that I had previously researched and produced it using the Intaglio printing technique, which I saw as an opportunity to experiment and explore the visual effect that this printing technique could have. I wanted to explore the visual impact of this printing technique and consider whether I would choose to use this form of expression in the development of my project, whether it would have a positive impact on the message I wanted to convey, whether it would lead to something better, whether it would interact and resonate with the audience.

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I like to expand my knowledge base on illustration and visual expression by learning new skills, I went on this trip to learn three new printing techniques, all three of which have their differences and ways of visualising or conveying a message and communicating with the audience. I think from this I can express my ideas in a new medium, through the different visual effects of printing and their unique forms of expression, texture, production methods, all of which empower my work and allow me to think about how to express my ideas, so I enjoy the process of applying these techniques, but also every time I reflect on and examine how my work can convey a message, and broaden my thinking and choices when choosing a medium.

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Experimental Embossing, Intaglio, Linocut Plates in Professional Photography 

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This is a collection of three printing techniques that I have been exploring during this time, I have been experimenting with three different types of printing with the ideas that I have been thinking about and researching for this time, I have been exploring ways to express the inequality that exists in our society in terms of women's rights, the injustices that women have suffered from in our society, and I have been researching a wide range of issues that I have learnt and realised how to express these issues, and how I can reflect on how to express them as myself, and how I can reflect on my own identity as a person, and how I can be a part of them. This process helped me to learn and deeply realise the seriousness of the problems that exist in every aspect, and made me reflect on how to express myself, what my perspective is as a female, and how I should express myself.

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Experimental Intaglio Printing in Professional Photography 

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A folder include Gelli Print Testing Process here

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After that I explored the female body, the female's first sexuality, as an entry point, because I feel that the vagina is the starting point of life, where the sperm enters to unite with the egg and begin to conceive life, and where the new life comes out to begin life, and this is the first door that every one of us, regardless of gender, has to the world and to connect with it, and I think that's where we all come from, regardless of our gender.

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A folder include Linocut Testing Process here

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I used Linocut to carve a woman's vagina, this is just an attempt and exploration, when I was carving, I kept remembering and thinking about what my vagina looks like, and at the same time, I was thinking that every woman's vagina looks different, how should I take this into consideration, because this is very private, it's impossible for me to go to the statistic, interviews, and actually look at a lot of girl's vaginas, which made me rethink how to express myself, because I can't just use online data, photo information as the project, I need to do real research. How to express it, because I couldn't just use data from the internet, photographic material as a resource for the project, I needed to be authentic in my research. Also, when I was making the vagina print, I was reflecting on what my choice of the vagina, which is a maternal organ, represents, and what message I want to use it to express and convey to the audience.

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Experimental Gelli Printing in Professional Photography 

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Experimental Linocut Printing in Professional Photography 

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Idea Development Translation:

Women themselves have the right to use their own bodies

The temperature of our bodies

Nurture

'Door' as a vehicle, women trapped in a door, the current state of society, opening a door outwards or inwards, in or out.

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bookbinding as a communication medium without rules. By binding randomly and contemplating repetitive movements and colour choices, I considered how these elements affect visual communication.

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Enquiry - Exhibition 'WOMEN IN REVOLT!' ART AND ACTIVISM IN THE UK 1970-1990

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Enquiry - Exhibition 'WOMEN IN REVOLT!' ART AND ACTIVISM IN THE UK 1970-1990

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drawing inspiration from feminist artworks I resonated with during a research trip. Using Monoprint techniques, I reproduced and experimented with printed pieces to further clarify the themes that resonated with me. Instead of merely documenting ideas, I created pieces imbued with my personal reflections. By employing experimental creation methods during research, I could better understand the perspectives conveyed by various artworks, stimulate thought from different angles, and foster continuous creation while developing my ideas.

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I've explored using my own female body as a medium to visualise the idea that we all have the same body temperature, that we're all the same, that women should be treated as equals, through the idea that we all have the same body temperature, that we're all the same, that we're all the same, that we should be treated as equals, and exploring more possibilities for visual expression from that.

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While exploring different configurations, I ultimately chose an orderly and symmetrical arrangement to visually convey equality. I also utilised Photoshop to set halftones, adjusting parameters to test various effects on the images. I wanted them to be blurred and unfocused on the female body itself, instead highlighting the relationship between the body and the ice, and the degree of melting. I chose printmaking as my medium for visual expression, aiming for a more tactile, random feel rather than the high-definition of digital prints.

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In addition to standard printing, the technician and I tried shifting the paper to create a misaligned effect, an entirely new, experimental attempt. This unexpected outcome arose

from my extensive conversations with the technician, who taught me a lot about machine printing.