For our FMP we were given a variety of themes that we could use but I decided to use my own theme.

To start with I was stuck between two ideas.One was how female ageing is portrayed by the media and how women are treated in the tv/film industry due to age.

The second one was inspired by a video I watched where female celebrities were asked intrusive questions based on the fact that they are female and not focusing on there career. Some of these questions were:

• ‘Where you able to wear undergarments? (when the male presenter recieved a shocked response) ‘Is this inappropiate?!?’
• ‘If you could pick make-up or your phone which one would you pick?’
• ‘What are you looking for in a man now?’
• Your gonna walk home with more then just a trophy tonight.I think lots of men!’
• ‘There is one subject we didn’t talk about…Your Breasts!’
• ‘Aren’t you worried that people will pick up on the sexual references and not care about your music?’

I decided to choose the first idea as it seemed to generate the most questions.I also found alot of interesting articles which had some stand out ‘pro ageing’ comments aswell ascomments which brought attention to certain issues

Some of these comments were:

• Ageing is not a crime
• Invisable women
• Ageing has no cure
• Ageing isn’t a disaese
• Why is ageing treated like a problem to be solved?
• ‘Women cast as players in a doomed quest for eternal youth‘

I thought about writing these slogans onto suffragette style posters,and also sewing them onto orange skin and doccumenting the skin ageing and how the writing changes on it as it does.I felt that orange skin would be an interesting choice of material due to it’s skin like pores and texture and the fact that it ages.I also considered creating some kind of mask using the peel too.

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