Unbound
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This project was created by DASS printing on a range of five binding materials. The materials are all items I have used during my transition to bind my chest. The images and writing are from different times in my life throughout the process and from my autobiography. These pieces are to show the pains, experiences, and reactions transgender people go through during their lives. The "Unbound" project was also meant to be an exploration of my life to help me understand myself and seek answers to all of the questions I have.
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This body of work is created in order to further explore my life through transitioning. It incorporates not only physical items that helped and restrained me, but also images and pieces of writing that had similar effects.
This project is made up of five different articles of clothing: a training bra, a 24B bra (the first bra size I can remember back to), my first (and handmade) binder, my first purchased binder, and my latest purchased binder (and the one I will wear till top surgery). Each piece of clothing is covered with DASS transferred images and writing that help demonstrate my journey through my transition and overall a huge part of who I am as a person.
Each piece of chest ware is used to represent a portion of my life—ranging from: childhood, teenage years, and the first three stages of my physical and mental transition. They demonstrate the choices I made—to hide, to alter myself, and even to jeopardize my health in order to save my mental health.
Along with these articles of clothing, are images correlating with that time period. Some are transferred in a clean and focused manner—this represents times in my life where I was “certain” or unquestioning of my identity. Others are blurred this is to demonstrate the times where I was unsure and questioning who I was and why I was born the way I am. Intertwined with the images are pieces of writing—some from others and some from myself. This are meant to be the underlying dialog that influenced me choices and emotions during these time periods.
There are three main types of writing incorporated in this project: sections from my autobiography (written at the request of my gender therapist), letters or text messages from people close to me that had drastic effects on me, and pieces of writing from my younger self—pre-transition. I used these pieces to show not only what I was thinking—since that is an important side to my transition, but also to show how those around me received the information—good or bad.
This project started out as every other “finding yourself” project had, but it soon became a lot more to me. In the end it isn’t just finding myself—but allowing myself to be found by others.
This project is made up of five different articles of clothing: a training bra, a 24B bra (the first bra size I can remember back to), my first (and handmade) binder, my first purchased binder, and my latest purchased binder (and the one I will wear till top surgery). Each piece of clothing is covered with DASS transferred images and writing that help demonstrate my journey through my transition and overall a huge part of who I am as a person.
Each piece of chest ware is used to represent a portion of my life—ranging from: childhood, teenage years, and the first three stages of my physical and mental transition. They demonstrate the choices I made—to hide, to alter myself, and even to jeopardize my health in order to save my mental health.
Along with these articles of clothing, are images correlating with that time period. Some are transferred in a clean and focused manner—this represents times in my life where I was “certain” or unquestioning of my identity. Others are blurred this is to demonstrate the times where I was unsure and questioning who I was and why I was born the way I am. Intertwined with the images are pieces of writing—some from others and some from myself. This are meant to be the underlying dialog that influenced me choices and emotions during these time periods.
There are three main types of writing incorporated in this project: sections from my autobiography (written at the request of my gender therapist), letters or text messages from people close to me that had drastic effects on me, and pieces of writing from my younger self—pre-transition. I used these pieces to show not only what I was thinking—since that is an important side to my transition, but also to show how those around me received the information—good or bad.
This project started out as every other “finding yourself” project had, but it soon became a lot more to me. In the end it isn’t just finding myself—but allowing myself to be found by others.