EXPERIMENTAL PROJECT,RICH IS BLACK&Vice Versa.
By Ruth Cooper,Biz Community 2017.
Colourism would be the word that pops up the most every time I talk about RICH IS BLACK & vice versa. For the longest time I’ve been so insecure about the colour of my skin, I am dark in complexion and growing up in the township I would get picked on by the other kids and that has grown into this big insecurity.
This is a very personal project to me as I realised I had to turn my frustrations and anxieties into art, and as an Afrocentric type of designer I needed a way of communicating and that was through my textile prints. The project then expanded and I started going all over campus and asking people about their insecurities and this really created a meaningful design process as I felt I was telling these stories correctly because my prints have their insecurities incorporated into them.
This is a very personal project to me as I realised I had to turn my frustrations and anxieties into art, and as an Afrocentric type of designer I needed a way of communicating and that was through my textile prints. The project then expanded and I started going all over campus and asking people about their insecurities and this really created a meaningful design process as I felt I was telling these stories correctly because my prints have their insecurities incorporated into them.
