Intervention Poster

    

Female sticker on pole.

    Using clear packing tape, wax paper from my kitchen, and a handful of paint and alcohol markers, I created a series of low-budget stickers to spread feminist messages around my town. The end goal aim I had, eventually, was to make my intervention a combination of two of the main sources we cover in class, Kimberly Drew’s story in This Is What I Know About Art, and the Guerilla Girls group. Truthfully, at first, I had only wanted to create a couple simple straight-forward stickers decorated with common messages you hear from feminist movements that I can spread around. Not to say the simple things can’t be impactful, I just didn’t have anything specific to say, and wanted to make my project clear-cut. Kimberly Drew included in her book “... She asked me to think about what I wanted to say, and, more importantly, how I wanted it to be interpreted.” (This is What I Know About Art.) While this quote refers to a specific situation she found herself in, the words she writes are valuable. So, I took a page out of her book, literally, and created a few more stickers about female artists and creatives. The Guerilla Girls have been spreading messages about female artists for a much longer and worthwhile time, and while I couldn’t do something as magnificent, I included a few stickers reminiscent of them. The black and white text stickers specifically. Instead of getting rid of the stickers I already made, I just included the old and new ones together. 

    Since my stickers are relatively small individually, they may seem a bit too different from another when looking closely. Like, each sticker is part of a different series. However, I feel that when you consider all the stickers together, they form one very clear image. “Despite the contemporary visionary feminist thinking that makes clear that a patriarchal thinker need not be a male, most folks continue to see men as the problem of a patriarchy. This is simply not the case. Women can be wedded to patriarchal thinking and action as men.” (Understanding Patriarchy.) Together, the stickers rebel against patriarchal thinking in a general sense. 

    After creating these stickers, I quickly got rid of them. Some of these stickers were eventually put up where it was able, to be seen and interacted, in a public space. And some were given away directly to the public for  strangers to keep.

Collection of stickers.

Collection of stickers.

Guerilla Girls inspired sticker on pole.