KarMel Scholarship 2006
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Best Transgender “Pieces” and “Evolution 4.2” By Ethan Bach - NM |
Description of Submission:
“Pieces –This
piece was created while I was recovering from my hysterectomy. This was a very
intense experience. Not only have I never felt any relation to those organs,
but it was my most intense surgery to date (and this marks surgery number four
in my life). The intentions of images and words are to evoke feelings of
intensity and confusion. The repetitiveness of the incision is not only to
express being cut numerous times, but to work within the context of Native
American art styles of creating a background with repeating images. The circles
represent sort of a pop art feeling considering that my transition has come in
a time of gender _expression being almost trendy and the multiple images of
myself represents the lives I have gone through or perhaps the stages I have
gone through in order to become who I am today not just in the physical sense.
“
Evolution 4.2
- A short experimental video that invites the audience not only to observe one
of the most delicate issues a transsexual may face, the fear of dating, but it
challenges the audience to emotionally participate. By bridging a glossy
narrative with a second layer offering a glimpse of reality (in reflective
documentary style), the audience is almost forced into emotionally engaging
with the character’s experience.”
- Ethan
Why Karen and Melody Liked
It: We liked the Evolution video and Pieces
drawing, as it was an effective way to show the struggles
of transgenders and their relationships.