Séance Signaling, 2023
Cyanotype on found fabric, welded steel frame, salvaged mannequin stand, 50”x20”
Cyanotype on found fabric, welded steel frame, salvaged mannequin stand, 50”x20”
Handmaidens of Aphrodite, 2023
Collages of drawings, screen prints, image transfers, block prints, lithographs on fabric, sewing pattern pieces, mounted within salvages screen print frames, 36”x54”
Collages of drawings, screen prints, image transfers, block prints, lithographs on fabric, sewing pattern pieces, mounted within salvages screen print frames, 36”x54”
Through a collage of metal sculpture, fiber art, and printing traditions, this work engages with historically gendered forms of engineering and modes of mechanical reproduction. I present printed media, garment construction, and information technologies as linked contributors in the production of cultural identities, while employing found, manipulated, and printed imagery to generate them. In these ways, the work’s content and processes address the means by which an idealized womanhood has been produced and disseminated across art historical tradition and popular media, often deployed as a tool for bodily control.