"FROM PURE, CLEAN, NEW, AND VEILED, TO IMPURE, DIRTY, USED, AND UNVEILED."
This is the perceived idea of divorced women, that their positive qualities are “wasted” and “used” and therefore “no longer” good enough to be used again to remarry another person. In reality their qualities are resilient, true to their existence not their actions or previous partners. Something similar happens to food and spices, once they are used they lose value and they are tossed and forgotten but their qualities remain and can be just as useful as their first time.
CINNAMON BARK AND ME
Materials: Repurposed silk fabric, cotton thread, cotton cord, and USED cinnamon bark on a plaster and copper wire statue.
CORKS AND SILK
Materials: Repurposed cork, cotton thread, silk fabric, and artificial flowers.
" I want to experiment with the idea of beauty and versatility in the reusing of spices and objects, parallel to the idea of divorced women being less “pure” as if their qualities were lost after a first marriage. All of these concepts will connect through the idea of “tangle” or “entwinement” as a visual representation of marriage and the underlying message behind christian veiling of “women as a gift to man”. "
TEA BAGS
Materials: Repurposed cotton scarf, cotton thread, and used tea bags.
ROPE AND SHELLS
