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While doing laundry for my boyfriend and I, I began to question the ideas of domesticity\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0the “traditional”\u00c2\u00a0role of woman. I found myself amazed by the amount of dryer sheets that began to accumulate and\u00c2\u00a0got this image of a wedding dress made from\u00c2\u00a0dryer sheets. I felt that\u00c2\u00a0this image really solidified my most recent internal struggle, the question if I really want to get married and be expected to “do the laundry.”\u00c2\u00a0
\n\u00c2\u00a0As I pondered this new image\/idea, I found the WWIII residency opportunity and began to explore the notion that we could find ourselves\u00c2\u00a0at the brink of\u00c2\u00a0a third world war. As I read the objectives of the residency,asking applicants to “reflect fears, concerns and protest in their artwork”, I realized that my current idea would be the perfect forum to express these\u00c2\u00a0larger issues. The two world wars served as a catalyst for woman to break from the mold of “woman’s work” and the tight confines of the domestic sphere, the very\u00c2\u00a0things which I was struggling with. However, if I took that metaphor, this “dress” made from\u00c2\u00a0a domestic by-product(dryer sheets), and used it as the canvas from which to tackle larger issues it could really create a point of discussion with a viewer.\u00c2\u00a0
\nI realized that I would be able to take this\u00c2\u00a0project even further by exploring the psychological effect\u00c2\u00a0that\u00c2\u00a0different styles of dress can rely to the viewer. I hope to explore including hand\u00c2\u00a0sew text into the layers of the\u00c2\u00a0dress,\u00c2\u00a0allowing just another forum in which to\u00c2\u00a0make a\u00c2\u00a0statement.
\nDuring the term\u00c2\u00a0of the residency, I would hope to complete 2-3 dresses, made\u00c2\u00a0exclusively from dryer sheets and added text.\u00c2\u00a0I also\u00c2\u00a0considered photographing these dresses, either from a free standing form that I make from\u00c2\u00a0myself or to push the\u00c2\u00a0second stage of this proposal into a self portrait series using these fabricated dresses.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While doing laundry for my boyfriend and I, I began to question the ideas of domesticity\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0the “traditional”\u00c2\u00a0role of woman. I found myself amazed by the amount of dryer sheets that began to accumulate and\u00c2\u00a0got this image of a wedding dress … Continue reading