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GENDER EQUIVALENCES IN EVERYDAY APPURTENANCES

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as a sequel to my 'dexterity co-efficiency' series about the significance of design as it relates, as Art, to everyday objects and everyday common concepts.......question #683, of those questions that drive parents nuts when barrages of them inundate the dinner table conversation......: What is the 'gender equivalency' of these two silver spoons? What constructs, what preconceived ideas about 'gender'? What determines our processing and instantaneous 'labeling' of just about any and everything? In what ways do we unthinkingly categorize items in everyday usage......and people, in everyday correspondences?.....

The Visitation of Freaks to the Corpse of their Savior......

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Arshile Gorky palm-paints his dilemma .......What do you think 'that' was?

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express, in words, your thoughts about the inter-relationship between these two images......

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1 :00..... a page from my Rorschach Test Series.......Chapter 3: 'Influential Co-Referencing'..... What does one see, process and interpret through the filters of experiential constructs, formulated during impressionable Youth? Twenty years ago, when I was 'donating' my new formulations about emotional development during 'formative years'.....(aren't they all?)....[remembering the 'Tests' that I 'took' in my teens, to 'discover' what kind of whacko artsy-fartsy, anti-social person that I seemed....by my parents, anyway.... to be 'becoming'.....the MMPI, 'Ink-Blot Test', Cooter Preference Exam and half a dozen others......] I 'designed' my own 'Testing Materials' for students that may not have met the parameters of 'Normalcy'.....that lacked high degrees of Imagination/Creativity...... The 'Problem' was that 'normal' youths were drawing 'blanks' and had little...