PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOP / COLOURING / BOOK-MAKINGColour-a-Vulva
Having explored the vulva through making (see Vulva Plushie), the Colour-a-Vulva project sought to collaboratively explore this anatomical part to creatively communicate the individuality of women’s bodies. Utilizing line drawings of real vulvas from the Cunt Coloring Book by Tee Corinne, I organised a group workshop where my peers engaged in conversation about the female body while colouring in these drawings.
“First published in 1975 by lesbian activist and artist Tee Corinne, the Cunt Coloring Book was created as a resource for sex education”. Cunt Coloring Book. (n.d.). Last Gasp. www.lastgasp.com/products/cunt-coloring-book.
Workshop in session.
Coloured vulva drawings by workshop participants.
The ten pages of coloured vulvas were then scanned, re-sized, reprinted, and crafted into an accordion-style book artefact, highlighting notions of revelation and intimacy in the viewing action.
I began by scanning the coloured pages, editing them to a square format and utilising some coloured craft papers as the binding pages in between. I used a thicker card stock for the front and back cover pages to add some stability. The square papers required a specific folding technique that took a few tries to execute perfectly. They needed to be aligned as a diamond, with each end of the diamond page glued to the centre of the next page, which then folds into each other to form the accordion book.
Final accordion book.
My cohort’s animated engagement in this workshop fostered spirited conversations that extended beyond the classroom, indicating a keen interest in the subject matter.