space and everything in it
quote of the week: "type ko talaga yung bahay niyo. it's so lesbian." - yari, 28marsun
that gave us something to think about the whole night last night. yari's quote provoked our minds and so we ended up racking our brains as to why our house appeared so lesbian to her. i mean, the quote is cute and all, but it also makes you think... which is actually cool, you know?
so what gives a space its gender or sexuality? is it the furniture? is it the paint job? is it the tile work? we're not so sure. but we welcome the comment. we figured maybe it's because we decorate the house the way we want to, and put in furniture that we feel like putting. whether it be nice hand me downs from family, cool shabby chic finds, or brand new mall-bought stuff, we put it in there if we feel like it. of course we estimate the design and aesthetics of it all, lest we wanna appear as a grand showroom of some store. you know that? kinda like von rommel's house, straight out of an ikea catalogue. as in. you should see it to believe it. when we watched THE FIGHT CLUB and saw edward norton's character's house, hahaha we both said "hmmm we know a guy just like that!" ikea boylets. :P
but i digress. so what gives a space its impressed orientation? like how a car can have a personality, like a muscle car seems stupid to jenny in THE L WORD but sexy for marina. eh? i dunno. it looked like the talyer is calling it or something. well anyway, i just remembered my cousin jane's quip when we were in hongkong years ago. i asked her to take a shot of me on the foreground and the ocean park ride thing i rode on the background, and she said the shot was so male! i mean, that's the first time i ever heard someone tell me that the shot i'm asking for is so male. what gives?
i think it was roselle who wrote about defining lesbian spaces in a past issue of WOMEN IN ACTION, isis' quarterly magazine. i kinda forgot na what she wrote there, but maybe i have to reread it in order to make sense of all these spaces having gender qualities, and sexual orientation for that matter. i understand what it means to have a place decorated an appear so het, so gay, so square, so boring. but so lesbian? hm, i'm not even sure how to define a space of our own. man, i guess i still need to learn in that department. m said it might be because of the way we aranged the house, or she said maybe what yari meant was the house reeks of people who are independent, live independent of their parents and escape the usual middle class house design clichés and staples, like the big last supper on the dining room, the occasional ming dynasty-looking vase in the living room, and the heavy drapes here and there. hm... i guess if gazes can have a female and male perspective, so does design, gestalt, and space.
so okay, i'm cool with that. :) i'm just glad that our house doesn't appear girly girl het. hehe. :)
that gave us something to think about the whole night last night. yari's quote provoked our minds and so we ended up racking our brains as to why our house appeared so lesbian to her. i mean, the quote is cute and all, but it also makes you think... which is actually cool, you know?
so what gives a space its gender or sexuality? is it the furniture? is it the paint job? is it the tile work? we're not so sure. but we welcome the comment. we figured maybe it's because we decorate the house the way we want to, and put in furniture that we feel like putting. whether it be nice hand me downs from family, cool shabby chic finds, or brand new mall-bought stuff, we put it in there if we feel like it. of course we estimate the design and aesthetics of it all, lest we wanna appear as a grand showroom of some store. you know that? kinda like von rommel's house, straight out of an ikea catalogue. as in. you should see it to believe it. when we watched THE FIGHT CLUB and saw edward norton's character's house, hahaha we both said "hmmm we know a guy just like that!" ikea boylets. :P
but i digress. so what gives a space its impressed orientation? like how a car can have a personality, like a muscle car seems stupid to jenny in THE L WORD but sexy for marina. eh? i dunno. it looked like the talyer is calling it or something. well anyway, i just remembered my cousin jane's quip when we were in hongkong years ago. i asked her to take a shot of me on the foreground and the ocean park ride thing i rode on the background, and she said the shot was so male! i mean, that's the first time i ever heard someone tell me that the shot i'm asking for is so male. what gives?
i think it was roselle who wrote about defining lesbian spaces in a past issue of WOMEN IN ACTION, isis' quarterly magazine. i kinda forgot na what she wrote there, but maybe i have to reread it in order to make sense of all these spaces having gender qualities, and sexual orientation for that matter. i understand what it means to have a place decorated an appear so het, so gay, so square, so boring. but so lesbian? hm, i'm not even sure how to define a space of our own. man, i guess i still need to learn in that department. m said it might be because of the way we aranged the house, or she said maybe what yari meant was the house reeks of people who are independent, live independent of their parents and escape the usual middle class house design clichés and staples, like the big last supper on the dining room, the occasional ming dynasty-looking vase in the living room, and the heavy drapes here and there. hm... i guess if gazes can have a female and male perspective, so does design, gestalt, and space.
so okay, i'm cool with that. :) i'm just glad that our house doesn't appear girly girl het. hehe. :)
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