A Capstone to Me Should Be a Time Capsule to Others
Despite the evident passion everyone tells me they see in me, I’ve been struggling to narrow down my passions to one singular capstone concept. One might suggest to me how I should narrow down to the top concepts that I engage in. I could go on for days about how injustice bothers me, how people fascinate me, how a sense of belonging means everything to me, and you would hear no difference in the level of passion I feel about these topics. Those vague statements alone are so very broad. I find myself very attached to the vague concepts that seem to need clarifying.
Additionally I have been advised that my project should not have/does not have to “change the world.” Although I can agree and find relief in this statement, I think that’s my issue. I want to change the world. Or rather, I want to make some impact that incites individuals to want to willingly make the decision to see injustice and be passionately empowered at minimum to want to make efforts towards changing the rules of the game of society. I want people to see in my future work the importance of who made the rules, how the rules are not concrete, who benefits from the rules, and who is hurting from the rules. This is the overall impact I want my capstone to take on. Not only because I’ve been DYING to create something impactful, but because there’s no better time than the present to deconstruct and understand injustice in our country.
There are so many atrocities I feel Americans just rationalize away, don’t concern themselves to be bothered by, and most are so desensitized that they don’t blink twice when hear another mass shooting, another missing child, another rapist got away, another black man killed by the police, another woman dies from a coat-hanger abortion, another sex slavery scandal uncovered, etc.
What bothers me is how none of these incidences are really new concepts. Even mass shootings have taken place before the Columbine. Any one of these atrocities have likely been some form of a capstone before, if not other artists and designers have definitely created pieces dedicated to these topics. However, I feel the pertinence of contributing my voice to those who are victimized and still go unheard—to this day in the “modern” era of 2021.
Although I would love to support so many other causes that face injustice, I feel I have the most qualifications to create a capstone defending women’s bodily autonomy. Even after the Women’s Suffrage Movement which started in the mid 19th century and lasted nearly 100 years, even after gaining our rights to our own bodies debating inherit reproductive purposes of Roe v Wade, some Americans STILL BELIEVE that women shouldn’t have the choice whether or not she can care for a child after she’s been impregnated, although she is the one carrying the “new” and unborn life. She’s not considered by society to be capable of making the decision if the life inside of her should come into the world or not, despite that she is the one going through changes (physical, mental, financial, etc) as soon as she is pregnant. It makes no sense to me how people do not see this as policing mentality over her own decisions of her own body, and the controversy of the opinionated pro-life supporters. The rising restrictions to abortion bans and the concern of overturning Roe V Wade demonstrates how people still do not believe in women’s bodily autonomy. This. Must. Stop.
With efforts to shed more light on the controversy in supporting pro-life movements and how abortion bans create problems for women, I intend to create a film demonstrating the problems that come from/have come from abortion bans within the United States through use of motion posters, typography, and . Ideally, it would reach a wide audience around the internet, but my targeted audience would be right-wing conservative Americans against abortions.
