Red Hair in the Changing Red Tide



I have always loved the image of mermaids in fairy tales, especially the beautiful red hair, but after I learned more about them I found that the appearance of mermaids in the West was regarded by sailors as the coming of doom. Moreover, there has been a period of time when people had a very serious prejudice against red-haired women. Red hair has even become a symbol of desire and sex. Some people even imagine red-haired women as witches and prostitutes to persecute them and regard red-haired women as imaginary enemies. It’s just like the red tides in the sea. They are beautiful in colors, but they are actually caused the destruction to the oceans by humans. I decided to combine these two stigmatized objects to tell their stories. I extracted the red-haired female image from the oil painting and the phenomenon of marine ecological destruction brought by mankind and combined the red-haired woman with the red tide. By combining the meanings of the colors at each stage of the red tide changing process with the stories of the four red-haired women themselves, I try to depict the changing process of the degree of damage suffered by the red-haired women.