Our task today was that we had to first, look at the Olympic exhibition (which was small), and from that, decide on a theme for your own collection to exhibit. All artefacts being sourced from the rest of the items on show at the museum.
I liked the reference to the Goddess Nike. I learnt something new as I did not know they had knicked... sorry, were inspired by Olympics and the Goddess Nike...I also liked the image of her and so I thought I should explore the theme of the female form through the museum.
To be honest, I didn't hold firm with that initial solid theme of the Godess. I did joke about a bit about how I was going to hone in on breasts alone, or the androgyny of a lot of the faces looking back at me in this museum.
At one point I was going to finish my piece with observational shots of the general public...but I was too tired at then end to even contemplate taking sneaky shots of people.
I did see an incredibly beautiful man that could quite easily have been a woman, and thug that could be an interesting theme for my project, as so many of the statues held this quality...especially in the Egyptian section of the Museum.
He didn't wan tme to take his pc so that was that.
At one point I was going to finish my piece with observational shots of the general public...but I was too tired at then end to even contemplate taking sneaky shots of people.
I did see an incredibly beautiful man that could quite easily have been a woman, and thug that could be an interesting theme for my project, as so many of the statues held this quality...especially in the Egyptian section of the Museum.
He didn't wan tme to take his pc so that was that.
but as I travelled through different time zones and regions I realised that if I looked a little deeper there was more to this that just the Goddess theme, but the meaning attached to the objectification of femalehow and why humans have recreated images of the female form, how it has changed in detail, and

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