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-“SEXx (Social Expectations of Women)” is a project that reflects on the social norms of woman oppression which targets to point out issues that women are usually being judged and evaluated their values from their expressions of desire and behaviours especially when it comes to SEX.  In order to engage people understandings and make them indulge into the pool of those issues, the project creates an environment for visitors by using mixed media such as photography, installation and videography, for the audiences to experience the hidden issues that women face in the society.
+“SEXx (Social Expectation of Women)” is a project that reflects on woman oppression in our society which targets to point out issues that women are usually being judged and evaluated their values from their behaviours and expressions of desire especially when it comes to SEX. There are terms that use to describe women such as whore, slut, nymphomaniac.  In opposition to men, who get to be called with much more positive definition such as romeo, cassanova or womenizer.  In order to engage people understandings and make them indulge into the pool of those issues, the project creates an environment for visitors by using mixed media such as photograph, installation and video, for the audiences to experience the hidden issues that women are still facing in the society.
-The project is inspired by the beautiful living form of Physarum Polysephalum (Slime Mould), an intelligent unicellular organism that can find the shortest path to access their food and avoid harmful environments.  The visual act of slime moulds searching for food does not only portray the freedom of their desire for food, but also manifest the power of expression and decisiveness regardless any conditions. The intrigued pattern of slime moulds when hunting for food influenced me to look deeper into the possibility of our new social norms. What if we, women, can finally express ourselves freely without being judged or evaluated, how pleasant of life could it be?
+The project is inspired by the beautiful living form of Physarum Polysephalum (Slime Mould), an intelligent unicellular organism that can find the shortest path to access their food and avoid harmful environments.  The visual act of slime moulds searching for food does not only portray the freedom of their desire for food, but also manifest the power of expression and decisiveness. The intrigued pattern of slime moulds when hunting for food inspired me to look deeper into the possibility of the new social norms. What if we, women, can finally express ourselves freely without being judged or evaluated, how pleasant of life could it be?
-[[File:Passion Asasu - SEXx 1st Section.jpg|1600px]]
+[[File:Passion Asasu - SEXx 1st Section 4.jpg|1600px]]
-Before cracking the core of the norms, I firstly want to peel the shell by allowing us, everyone, to understand the difficulties of limited expression by using slime moulds and putting them into a controlling environment which firmly against their nature. Then, I observed their struggling patterns of not being able to access their food and documented them by photography and time-lapse, in order to reflect the message of the project visually. The idea is to enhance the fact that we are diverse in every level and scale as well as other organisms, and we deserve to be able to exercise our passion and desire as free as possible. Otherwise, we will see this struggling pattern exists everywhere.
+Before cracking the core of the norms, I firstly want to peel the shell by allowing us, everyone, to understand the difficulties of being limited in expression by using the natural performance of slime moulds to ironically represent the idea. There are two experiments conducted in this project, both of them shared the main idea of putting slime moulds into a controlling and challenging environment which firmly against their nature. Then, I observed their struggling patterns of not being able to access their food and documented them by photography and time-lapse, in order to convey the message of the project visually. The idea is to enhance the fact that we are diverse in every level and scale as well as other organisms, and we deserve to be able to release our passion and desire as free as possible. Otherwise, we will see this struggling pattern exists everywhere.
- In conclusion, the project aims to increase sympathy, raise the standard of our social norms and slim down the inequality borders to allow women to express their desires and behaviours as equal as other genders because we are all simply just the products of the nature.
+The project aims to increase sympathy, raise the standard of our social norms and slim down the inequality borders to allow women to express themselves as equal as other genders because we are all simply just the products of the nature.
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 The project contains two experiments and observations:
-'''Experiment No1:''' I put slime mould in a divided container which has 12 holes, then put agar into the bottom of every hole and put slime moulds and oats separately and left some of the holes empty. Slime moulds can easily sense the food but in order to reach, they need to find the way to access through the empty space between the holes. I record the movement with time lapse, photography and microscope.
+'''Experiment No.1:''' I put slime mould in a divided container which has 12 holes, then put agar into the bottom of every hole and put slime moulds and oats separately and left some of the holes empty. Slime moulds can easily sense the food but in order to reach, they need to find the way to access through the empty space between the holes. I record the movement by using time-lapse, photography and microscope.
 '''Result:''' Slime mould used little bridges between the holes to reach the oats and some of them moved downwards to the bottom of the container and climbed up to the holes that full with oats and some of them used the lid of the container as a bridge to reach the oats.  The empty holes that are not in between the oats and slime moulds were not part of the journey which means slime moulds still chosen the shortest paths instead of searching every hole but the journey took a bit longer than usual. In the end, they could take over most of the oat holes and grew very big then dried out because of the lack of agar. From the observation, I can see the hard work in the journey, and it was inspiring how they creatively manage to find the way to the food in a difficult situation.