Concept:

Not everyone is fortunate enough to inherit the love letters their parents shared during their courtship. I did receive that privilege.

LOVE LETTERS 1946-47

Letters written between my parent during courtship.

PERFORMANCE -2015

I publicly read my parents letters  from when they began dating in the 1940’s. During the performance am wearing my mother’s wedding dress. The performance was highly personal, as both of them have passed on and I had never read the letters before. By reading the letters aloud I intended to honor their relationship. The wearing of my mother’s wedding dress  symbolize and mother and daughters subliminal likeness.

 DRESS DAY(Their wedding 1946) COLLAGE-2015

These collages incorporate pieces of white fabric, simulating my mother’s wedding dress, along with photographs of my own body parts. There is an introspective quality to this work as I consider feminine traditions and how female identity is tacitly endowed. There is an elegant gestural quality in the poses, which can at times be sexually suggestive, embracing feminine sensuality, a concept that transcends age and time.

BIRTH DATE SERIES-Collage -2015

Continuing to develop the concept of the universal mother daughter relationship this series incorporates mother and daughter body parts intertwining mimicking the complex entanglement and estrangement of this unique female bond, symbolizing the passing of the feminine baton from one generation to the next.