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Gap analysis

 * What is the title of the article in which you identified a gap. If no article exists at all, what should the title be?

Yun Bai (Yunny Bunny)


 * Document the gap you found, describe how you identified it, and analyze its impact on knowledge.

I discovered the artist Yun Bai from the Brooklyn Museum’s Feminist Art Base web page. I was initially drawn to her name because of the visual attraction of her thumbnail which depicts a piece of hers of a flower and because she had an Asian name, because I am Asian. Later I read more about her and discovered that her artwork of the beautiful flowers are actually collages of pornographic images. This was very interesting to me because it was a completely new concept and I thought it was really clever and amazing how well these images were disguised as beautiful flowers. After discovering her and her work, I quickly went to Wikipedia to search for her, but could not find anything already written so, I knew this was a perfect example of a Wikipedia Gap. I think it is important to write about her, because she is doing something very different and I think that it is noteworthy. Through her work she is tackling and commenting on the big industry of pornography, specifically pornographic photography. I think not having a Wikipedia page for her and her artwork, is limiting in a way that it does not share her unique perspectives on gender, sexuality, nationality and class. I think if her art work was shared on Wikipedia, it would be helpful to educate others with her critique of the pornography industry.


 * Propose a paragraph of new or substantially edited content based on reliable sources. (If you are editing existing content, post the current version along with your edited version, and clearly mark which is which.)

Yun Bai is an artist from Los Angeles, California born in Beijing China. When she was five she moved from China to Florida in the United States. Yun Bai grew up around conservative Chinese values. Later in life she pursued her interest in art at Agnes Scott College. During her college years, however, her mother fell sick to cancer and her parents would shortly go bankrupt. To help her family pay bills, she became an exotic dancer so she could continue school. Yun often struggle with her identity due to her many life experiences and struggles. After graduating, she soon started art shows in her city and nationally. She then appeared internationally at Berlin’s Gallery in June 2004. She is more often known as “Yunny Bunny,” which she uses as her alter ego on some of her works. She is interested in self and societal exploration and her work shows this. Her artwork focuses on empowering women, with her theme of “All Women are Flowers,” by restoring hope and beauty to raw pornographic images as she rearranges and collages them into beautiful flowers. These collages are called Porn Flower’s. From a distance these pieces of art look like flowers, but closer up they are cut pieces from porn magazines. These magazines are usually donated. Her artwork employs social aspects where sometimes her vision involves encouraging men to support women. While most may think pornography is objectifying, Yun Bai takes this and puts it into her artwork to empower and beautify the images and the women involved.


 * List the reliable sources that could be used to improve this gap. (You can use the Cite tool from the editing toolbar above to input and format your sources.)


 * "Yun Bai." Brooklyn Museum:. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Feb. 2016. < https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/yun-bai >.
 * : Fine Art Marketplace. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Feb. 2016. < http://www.fineartmarketplace.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1_153 >.
 * YUN BAI (YunnyBunny)- Official Website. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Feb. 2016. < http://www.yunbai.com/default.asp?WebsiteID=820&theIF=%2Fud6.asp%3FWebsiteID%3D820 >.
 * Teachartwiki -. N.p., 2006. Web. 17 Feb. 2016. < https://teachartwiki.wikispaces.com/Peaceful+Hope+-+Yun+Bai >.
 * Whitehot Magazine. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Feb. 2016. < http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/yun-bai-aka-yunny-bunny/323 >.