25" x 35" x 32"
Free standing sculpture fabricated from steel and stretched with nylon.
An obligation to others before self is taught to women from a young age. So commonplace and accepted that we often don’t notice it.
Smile to put others at ease, even if you are unhappy.
Cook and clean every evening, even though you work just as many hours as your husband.
Raise a family, even if you don’t want to.
I explore these observations of self-sacrifice in sculpture created from steel and feminine garments. Nylon skin presents transparency to the interior, enticing the viewer to explore secrets within.
The manner in which the sculpture interacts with itself and the viewer creates a narrative that analyzes the milestones of a woman’s life and expectations set upon her, from childhood, to marriage, to motherhood, to death, and legacy (or lack thereof) left behind.
My sculptures balance contrast between hard against soft material and sharp points against round edges, exploring opposites of love and pain, of complacency and rage.
I am dissecting the female self-sacrifice complex.
Smile to put others at ease, even if you are unhappy.
Cook and clean every evening, even though you work just as many hours as your husband.
Raise a family, even if you don’t want to.
I explore these observations of self-sacrifice in sculpture created from steel and feminine garments. Nylon skin presents transparency to the interior, enticing the viewer to explore secrets within.
The manner in which the sculpture interacts with itself and the viewer creates a narrative that analyzes the milestones of a woman’s life and expectations set upon her, from childhood, to marriage, to motherhood, to death, and legacy (or lack thereof) left behind.
My sculptures balance contrast between hard against soft material and sharp points against round edges, exploring opposites of love and pain, of complacency and rage.
I am dissecting the female self-sacrifice complex.