This work concentrates on the fact that women in Iran are judged and valued by being wifes and mothers.Therefore there is a great ammount of pressure on them to find husbands.This leads to women being showcased for marriage.
Proposal
Title:The Green,White and Red light district.
Throughout the ages being married has been considered a bonus for women in different cultures ,especially in Islamic countries.It doesn't seem to matter if a woman is educated,accomplished, hard working,etc.As long as she isn't married she isn't considered successful in life.Thus starts the race for finding and obtaining a husband.
Where female personal achievements lose their importance and youth,beauty,fertility and sexuality are considered as the only virtues.In these communities if a girl isn't married by twenty five she is on her way to spinsterhood.A forty year old unmarried woman is considered an old maid.Being judged and put under pressure even the most intellectual girl might start learning to cook,clean,do house work,etc.She is a burden to her family,since after a certain age everyone will make it their business to find out why she hasn't been married off yet,and of course it's always her fault!So sadly under stress girls will showcase themselves for men.Advertising their outstanding features in order to find a mate.As they are running out of time and not getting any younger.Being fertile is very important ,as all men are in need of male heirs! So the younger the bride the better.This work represents the way women exploit themselves in hopes of pleasing men, enough to marry them.The title has a hint of places like The Red light district in Amsterdam,where working girls stand in front of windows and show themselves off, advertising their body's sexuality.
As I'm an Iranian woman ,I have chosen our flag to represent the window in which we are shown off before the sale. Green,white and red are the colors of our flag,thus the title (The Green,White and Red light district.).
The work consists of a glass box,the same size of our flag.It has three equal horizontal sections,like the bands of the flag arranged in the same order,green ,under it white and then beneath it red.The first section will be filled with fresh green apples.The second with fresh white eggs ,in the middle there is a sanitary pad with blood on it representing fertility, and the last with fresh red apples.
Green apples represent youth,eggs symbolize fertility and red apples suggest lust and sexual appeal.Apples are also suggestive of the burdens we women have unjustly carried on our shoulders as descendants of Eve,since it was she who gave Adam the apple and therefore responsible for them being exiled from heaven,since he had no say in the matter!
Everything is fresh ,so that as time passes and the apples rot and the eggs go bad,they will symbolize the withering of youth ,loss of fertility and the eventual lack of sex appeal of the aging woman. She will never be wed and all hope for her to be considered a happily married mother and obeying wife is lost.
The glass box will have flashing neon lights attached to the top,middle and bottom of it.Green neon on the top,two lines of white neon in the middle for the white section and a set of red neon for the bottom.The flashing,dancing lights will make the flag look like a dancing cabaret window ,putting all effort into enticing and luring men to take a closer look.It will keep flashing until everything rots and goes bad ,only then will the plug be pulled and the advertising stopped.Since no man would want an old wife.
This work concentrates on the fact that women in Iran are judged and valued by being wifes and mothers.Therefore there is a great ammount of pressure on them to find husbands.This leads to women being showcased for marriage.
Proposal
Title:The Green,White and Red light district.
Throughout the ages being married has been considered a bonus for women in different cultures ,especially in Islamic countries.It doesn't seem to matter if a woman is educated,accomplished, hard working,etc.As long as she isn't married she isn't considered successful in life.Thus starts the race for finding and obtaining a husband.
Where female personal achievements lose their importance and youth,beauty,fertility and sexuality are considered as the only virtues.In these communities if a girl isn't married by twenty five she is on her way to spinsterhood.A forty year old unmarried woman is considered an old maid.Being judged and put under pressure even the most intellectual girl might start learning to cook,clean,do house work,etc.She is a burden to her family,since after a certain age everyone will make it their business to find out why she hasn't been married off yet,and of course it's always her fault!So sadly under stress girls will showcase themselves for men.Advertising their outstanding features in order to find a mate.As they are running out of time and not getting any younger.Being fertile is very important ,as all men are in need of male heirs! So the younger the bride the better.This work represents the way women exploit themselves in hopes of pleasing men, enough to marry them.The title has a hint of places like The Red light district in Amsterdam,where working girls stand in front of windows and show themselves off, advertising their body's sexuality.
As I'm an Iranian woman ,I have chosen our flag to represent the window in which we are shown off before the sale. Green,white and red are the colors of our flag,thus the title (The Green,White and Red light district.).
The work consists of a glass box,the same size of our flag.It has three equal horizontal sections,like the bands of the flag arranged in the same order,green ,under it white and then beneath it red.The first section will be filled with fresh green apples.The second with fresh white eggs ,in the middle there is a sanitary pad with blood on it representing fertility, and the last with fresh red apples.
Green apples represent youth,eggs symbolize fertility and red apples suggest lust and sexual appeal.Apples are also suggestive of the burdens we women have unjustly carried on our shoulders as descendants of Eve,since it was she who gave Adam the apple and therefore responsible for them being exiled from heaven,since he had no say in the matter!
Everything is fresh ,so that as time passes and the apples rot and the eggs go bad,they will symbolize the withering of youth ,loss of fertility and the eventual lack of sex appeal of the aging woman. She will never be wed and all hope for her to be considered a happily married mother and obeying wife is lost.
The glass box will have flashing neon lights attached to the top,middle and bottom of it.Green neon on the top,two lines of white neon in the middle for the white section and a set of red neon for the bottom.The flashing,dancing lights will make the flag look like a dancing cabaret window ,putting all effort into enticing and luring men to take a closer look.It will keep flashing until everything rots and goes bad ,only then will the plug be pulled and the advertising stopped.Since no man would want an old wife.