When I was a kid I didn’t want to be hairy like my dad, it seemed gross. Now that I’m an adult and turned out about as hairy as him I look at my receding hairlines and think about how I don’t want to be bald, like him. Hair is one of those things that reveal a lot of our cultures. For example, we read femininity, manliness, race/ethnicity, and attractiveness (I think of my that high school teacher who was handsome, but the hair poking out of his nose was hard to ignore) through it.
Practicing before recording.
I made “A Hair Story,” to talk about the different meanings associated with hair. To make the video, I grew my body hair and harvested it for a couple of months to get enough. I started by writing a story, then storyboarding it, and making a few letters as practice. Still, sometimes I had to change direction and improvise a different way to make the letters while filming because what I had sketched didn’t work. Working with serifs made legibility easier.
I made letters and words out of body hair to make obvious how our bodies are “written all over” with different, complex and contradictory meanings.
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