Observation of being Natural
- Love-hate relationship with being natural
- Wrap your hair before bed
- Swim cap for natural hair
- Perm - damage the hair
Figuring out your curl pattern helps you to know how to care for your hair better
Going natural you have to eliminate chemicals and relaxers to get a heather hair
- Applying oil to your scalp
Protective styles- braiding, twisting, wigs and weave
Natural hair can be a political and social statement, or simply loving yourself
- Noticed that natural hair products and supplies are owned by White and Asian store owners
- Preparation- the time and effort that goes into your hair
- Cost- very expensive
- The transition- of rocking different looks
- Shrinkage
- Workplace -discrimination - interview
so many aspects.
ReplyDeletepersonal.
economic (cost in money, time)
political etc.
love-hate relationship with hair.
I read from Ben Lerner's The Hatred of Poetry (2016), his discussion of Marianne Moore's poem "Poetry" —
I, too, dislike it..."
here
the passage ending :
"after all, a place for the genuine."
so many things, crises, problems swirling around one's hair. and so one (you, in this instance) keeps on braiding.
—
maybe there are "chapters."
each built around one braiding experiment (seven hours...)
and each attending to one theme, too — e.g., economic, race, gender, workplace issues...
am thinking a little about how Lerner discusses Claudia Rankine's Citizen : An American Lyric (2014) and her earlier Don't Let Me Be Lonely, the kinds of weaving she does.
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and what of the video you did? could you insert text there? or voice over? or both?
that was/is interesting work. where interruptions, daily life etc., are allowed in.
what other kinds of sound could be allowed in?