THE SELFIES (2017 – 2018)
As a white female artist, I felt compelled to use my artistic practice to explore the realities of individuals that are different from mine, and to examine my own experiences of being the recipient of gender-based biases and microaggressions. I have engaged with my and others’ experiences through manipulating dolls and doll-like imagery.
These works comprise a selection of my own stories and others. To execute the works I dressed in costume and photograph myself in a staged situation. Each character is given a doll’s head that portrays the emotion. Then each image is cut out of wood and the photograph is applied. The titles of these works are essential – they are part of the work itself and not simply a label for the piece. The moment of the solo performance remains frozen in time as a durational piece. These works involved a great deal of research; I try to understand secondhand the insults and injustices experienced by others.
10×13″
10×13″
7×2″
7×13″
16×20″
9×15″
8×20″
12×19″
8×13″
14×11″
10×13:
11×11.5″
6×17″
8×13″
8×13″
9×13″
11×14″
9×18
10×13″
8×14″
12×14″
12×13″
YOU TOO CAN HAVE IT ALL
14×20″
MOTHERHOOD
24×16″
THEY TOLD ME THIS WAS SCHOOL
14×24″
DIALOGUE APPETIZERS and THE SELFIES (2017 – 2018)
As a cis gender white female artist I feel compelled to use my artistic practice to explore the realities of individuals that are different from mine, and to examine my own experiences of being the recipient of gender-based biases and microagressions. I have engaged with my and others’ experiences through the manipulation of dolls and doll-like imagery.
The pieces comprising DIALOGUE APPETIZERS and THE SELFIES are a selection of my own stories and others’. To execute the pieces I dressed in costume and photograph myself in a staged situation. Each character is given a dolls head that portrays the emotion being felt. Then each image is cut out of wood and the photograph is applied. The titles of these works are extremely important – they are part of the work itself and not simply a label for the piece. The moment of the solitary performance remains frozen in time as a durational piece. These works involved a great deal of research; I try to understand second hand the insults and injustices experienced by others.
