SOCIETY'S STANDARDS
A series of portraits to reflect standards set by the people around us, whether it’s your job, appearance, relationships, or responsibilities. We start off by being ourselves, convinced no one can remove the strong attributes in our lives. Slowly but surely, the media emerges up with expectations, imaginary realities, and fake standards. We sculpture ourselves into a person we no longer know. Completely Contrasted. We fight, we try, we cry ourselves out of it, it's too much to bear. But there’s a segment in us that has turned it into a comfort zone, a place we feel approved and accepted. It has now become a part of us.
A standard we then preach.
What shapes our Social Norms?
Rules of behavior taught by our School, family, religion, media, peers, and other subtle details that form into our lives.
It’s made for individuals to fit into society and work coherently with others, made to create a position of power, hierarchy, and politics. Should we normalize certain laws introduced by the advantaged individuals or should we protest against it? Who and what should shape our norms and values? Do we have to live submissively to the country we live in norms or are we free to practice our own?
Answers to these will open up a new perspective and open up a curtain that shows we are a slave to this system.
Enclosure. By what barriers?
A struggle to connect to a standard, or a struggle to remove a standard.
Which is harder?
A norm embedded deep into our brains, our lifestyle, if one was to oppose, destruction within society is encountered and labeled a crime. From our crimes, the advantaged individuals find their money, from our crimes we find oppression. The fight for our freedom politically, on the street, or with our selves is the greater struggle. To be enforced to live coherently with others who do not wish to is the greatest crime. To be enforced to accept an ideology you are against is a crime. But to them, it's "for equal opportunities", it's "we know what’s best", it's "for your own good", "it will help you".
A white, upper-class man with ascribes status, telling a brown and black low-class female, "we know what's best for you".
The juxtaposition. The audacity.
