I thoroughly enjoyed the presentation on Patssi Valdez. I
connected with Patssi's artistry with her interest in fashion because I am also
interested in fashion. Fashion has been my own artistry since I was a little
girl. I would make clothes for my Barbie dolls until eventually I could make
clothes for myself. Patssi's use of unconventional materials such as paper to
create beautiful fashion pieces is very interesting to me.
I loved the image that was shown of the
display of her garments that she created from paper. I loved how her other
design ascetics are incorporated into her fashion works by doing screen
printing and painting. I liked the other images that were shown in the
presentation especially the performance piece. Performance pieces are also interesting
to me because spectators rarely know that their reactions are a part of the
performance as well. Such as from Patssi’s performance piece, spectators were
very confused and didn’t know what to think of the work. I also liked
that Patssi's work is linked with social activism with the artist collective
that she founded called ASCO. I think it was important to Patssi to make art
with a purpose. Her purpose was to create socially conscience art works to
represent her Chicano community.
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