Gender Ideas

From looking at Butler's I've discovered her idea that gender is just a performance that it is built up by through the repetition of specific behaviours: like lipstick for women and suits for men. I was looking into those ideas for myself, like how dying my hair is seen as very feminine but going to the cadets/military involvement is seen as being masculine. So I looked at those aspects of myself and created a small series of paintings. Looking at the different 'versions' of myself. I used blue and pink for my colour scheme because they are the recognised colours for male and female.