Mikitka - Quote/Color

“i want to apologize to all the women i have called beautiful

before i’ve called them intelligent or brave

i am sorry i made it sound as though

something as simple as what you’re born with

is all you have to be proud of

when you have broken mountains with your wit 

from now on i will say things like

you are resilient, or you are extraordinary

not because i don’t think you’re beautiful

but because i need you to know

you are more than that”

― Rupi Kaur

This quote really speaks to me and my project as a whole because I feel passionately about the quality of women and how they are treated in today’s society. I think so much of our culture puts value on a woman’s appearance and body instead of her mind, and what I’m aiming to do is bring attention to that and call for a stop to it. Obviously my subject matter deals with people taking advantage of women and their bodies, but the fact still stands- women are first seen as objects to look at before anything else. This quote shows that and also challenges that, which is exactly what I want to do. As for my object of color, I chose poppies. I have a poppy plant that sits on my window sill and it is the only brightly colored object in my room, so it always draws my eye. Firstly, I love the color of poppies because of how vibrant they are. But they also have a really important history that I don't think many people really acknowledge. The poppy became the symbol of WWI after the flowers started growing around the graves of the buried soldiers. I think it's really poetic to have something to beautiful symbolize something so gruesome and horrible. In the larger sense of my project, I think the subject matter of females being more than just objects is incredibly important to my message. I have been thinking a lot about having a very monochromatic color scheme in my video, but I think it might be interesting to play around with the concept of the color red appearing every now and then.