boy/girl/boy/girl/:

In this room, viewers are presented with a space painted half baby blue and half pastel pink the color choices are stereotypical nursery colors. All walls are covered obsessively from floor to ceiling with hand-written, cursive, chalk text. I choose to write the words this way to emulate the grade school exercise of learning cursive; the use of chalk is to further communicate learning and to display impermanence. The text covering the walls are the single word the definition of male/female or boy/ girl found in numerous dictionaries both historical and contemporary. Words such are fortified, and shrewd were used to describe boy as words such as frilly and bitter were used to describe girl. This space shows a limitation in both the male and female genders being define through vocabulary. Therefore, presented is a space where viewers are overwhelmed by definitions showing the contemporary limitation of ‘learned definitions’ of gender.