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Truth and Reconciliation Project

 Here is a linktree of resources that I have compiled which are Indigenous led resources. I believe it is important that we listen to Indigenous voices regarding all matters of truth and reconciliation, especially on this day instead of filling the space with our own voices and opinions. https://linktr.ee/murphykaela  

Scrapbook

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  Someone decided that my parking was bad, I think they took pity on my SK plates and just gave me a diagram to help in case I'm dumb. oops.

Research and inspiration

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https://capturephotofest.com/public-installations/how-do-you-love-me/ Émilie Régnier's  How do you love me?  located at Stadium-Chinatown Skytrain Station Curated by Emmy Lee Wall, Capture Photography Festival Growing up my hair was often the centre of negative attention. My family didn't know how to work with or care for hair like mine, so it was regularly a frizzy mess. I tried chemically relaxing my hair to burn the curl out in the hopes of having silky straight hair - spoiler alert - it never worked the way I wanted. I grew up hearing my mom tell me to give up on my dream of having beautiful hair because the type of hair I had wasn't capable of being beautiful in any sense.  Even at my high school graduation, for my hair to be considered fancy I felt the pressure to straighten and recurl my hair to match the current beauty standards because my natural hair was and is considered less formal. These days I've learned more in terms of taking care of my hair, and the att...

Semester Plan (Tentative)

September     Experimentation with hair     Reconciliation project     Video of braid removal and hair  October     Work on voiceover for braid recording     Charcoal drawings of hair          Midterm Crit November     Video review Due December     Have braid recording and audio ready for presentation          Final Crit Sept 9-18      Experimentation with hair     Research and reading Sept 19-25      Video removal of braids, and hair care after - (voiceover of list?)     Work on reconciliation project Sept 26- Oct 2     Reconciliation project due     Continued experimentation with hair     research surrounding beauty standards and the exclusion of POC from those standards Oct 3-9     Casting hair? - need bronze pour dates Oct 10-16 Oct 17-23 Oct 24-30 Oct 31- Nov 6 Nov 7-13 ...