The story of my Mom, Cindy’s, career as a professional orchestral flute player and how it ended when she had kids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUiRsO3uF_s

 

Shelby Edwards, Drawing Exercises, 2018

Drawing Exercises is a book containing line drawings of yoga poses from a beginners guide to yoga book. It is an alternative approach to a yoga practice in which I drew every pose instead of actually doing the poses myself.

Always the Damsel is a video in which explores the “damsel in distress” trope within movies. This video contains clips which specifically are of men saving women from danger.

 

Life Cycle engages with the process of plant growth while creating a fabricated plant cycle through the practice of stop motion animation.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO2NJiavpiI&feature=youtu.be

 

Text is sourced from Kaya’s personal encounters with men and their micro-aggressive compliments comparing her skin colour to food, and objectifying her skin colour.

I created pins with images of fried eggs and wore one on each breast after Sarah Lucas’ “Self Portrait with Fried Eggs”. I wore the pins to a party and had my sister arrive an hour later wearing the same pins, forcing unknowing party goers to engage with our sexuality and gender stereotypes.

This book has elements taken from a note my father wrote me in a German art book Der Blaeu Reiter (The Blue Rider) and close ups of the Kandinsky painting on the cover of said book. It is a contemplative look at the relationship between the specific handwritten text, and non-contextualized pieces of painting. Through this, it evokes memory, nostalgia, and a confusing relationship between text and image (to depict my complicated feelings about them).