Personal Adorment Reflection

Misun Lee
AAD 250
Apr 26, 2007

Personal Adornment Reflection

1. My belief or values about expressed by my dress and body adornment
: I think dressing clothes and body adornment are part of art activities that are using my body directly. By wearing clothes and accessories, I can express my feeling and my emotion. Art is not really complicated. If some activities reflect artists’ (or normal person) feeling and thought, that could be one of the art activities. Personal adornment is same. Also, whenever I put on my dress and take earring or some stuff for decoration, I believe I look better than before I do not. That is an activity that leads me to ‘upper-level of appearance.’ By doing adornment by myself, I can check my human value. Also, by expressing the belief, I can have confidence to myself.

1-2. Why do I choose to do this?
: The reason I choose to make up or do adornment is I hope my appearance looks better. To do my body adornment such as getting accessories or dressing good clothes or making up means kind of art investment to me. That could be creative art activity.

1-3. Has it changed?
: Yes. The expression of adornment has changed time goes by. It depends on specific situation (like as social art/ fashion trend) also it changed because of the age. In each of time when I focus on body adornment, I want to do differently, and more specially. The thing that I want to do is different in each moment. For this reason, my body adornment has been changed since I was interested on the adornment. Also, it is changing in this moment.

2. My family & Body adornment
: Actually, the interaction and communication about body customization are minor value in my family. My parents prefer to economic and convenient dress rather than body adornment. Nevertheless, it could be possible my parents constrain to wear too sensational body adornment. Because my parents think the clothing and body adornment exactly fit to the age, they offer to wear proper clothes when I was young if my adornment and clothing did not appropriate for my age. This is common thing in Korean society.

3. In peer community & Body adornment
: In my peer society, we pretty much spend our time to think how I look like. In my ages including me, we always catch up with hot trend. So, it is truth our values and belief pretty lean to ‘the value of beauty.’ Its passion and desire are expressed by body adornment. A lot of magazines and tons of information about body adornment give motivation to us. Also, we are pretty much affected by social art and fashion trend. It is sort of ‘art interaction.’