Art Feature: “Body Fluidity”
| dc.contributor.author | Betancourt, Gio | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-27T19:33:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-27T19:33:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-02-20 | |
| dc.description.abstract | “Body Fluidity” deals with the complexities of the human body, especially in the case of genitalia. People are assigned a specific sex/gender based on the development of their genitalia before birth. Throughout puberty or even during birth, it may become apparent that someone is intersex due to external appearances or hormonal differences internally. In other cases, some individuals feel as though the sex/gender they were assigned by society does not align with their own sense of self and may transition to a different gender or deconstruct gender altogether in a way that subverts society's expected norms. In all of these instances, we see the body as fluid, not binary, not one gender or the other, but as the home of the soul, which inhabits a body unique to everyone else's. In this way, this piece is representative of undergraduate research; through research you may uncover new findings, some of which deconstruct old findings to represent a better understanding of a topic. My art piece is meant to do that—deconstructing the binary instilled into society for centuries and replacing it with a new understanding of the human body. | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2160-617X | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/30505 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY | |
| dc.subject | charcoal | |
| dc.subject | abstract | |
| dc.title | Art Feature: “Body Fluidity” | |
| dc.type | Image |