I inspired a lot by these readings and happy to discover more arts and artists through the readings and other classmates’ posts.

After reading 10 Female Performance Artists You Should Know, from Ana Mendieta to Carolee Schneemann, I am attracted by Wilson’s artwork and what she said in an interview. “As women, we find ourselves performing all the time to meet society and the culture’s expectations about what we’re supposed to do, how we’re supposed to look, what we’re supposed to think,” Wilson explained in a 2015 interview. These become the reasons that Wilson doing her artwork or it is the core value and idea that motivate her to do her arts. She is using role play to discover how others invasing female’s self identity.

That’s the topic and thought that what I am being interested in-I feel like women are being required to fit in too many roles but there is no role for her to only play her true self. Most roles are under other people’s gazing-“good wife””good mother””good daughter”, they are all belonging to someone’s wife, mother or daughter but not herself. A woman’s whole time is being seperating and chopped to serve others depends on the relationships but never for herself. The society doesn’t want to give back the right to women-they dont want a woman can charge for herself and can take care of her own time. She is being considered to be thoughtful, caring, kind and willing to devote herself in a family-from her own home to others’ home, from daughter to wife, from wife to mother, she switching her role but it is difficult to see a place that she can play her own self by her free willing.