Tidal Bathers

Ebb Tide

Ebb Tide

In my representational sculptural practice, I use fiber techniques to articulate a female mythology driven by imperfect and resilient female figures. I have chosen fabric as my central material because like the skin, it can be pierced and sewn, adorned and torn; its surface acts as a ground for storytelling. I am specifically drawn to the symbol of the female bather because bodies of water denote liminality, vulnerability and oneness. I reclaim the poses of Greek Goddesses by recreating them with casts of my own body and install these life-sized bathers alongside plaster vessels covered in a hand-stitched personal iconography depicting solitary women. For these vessels, I am replicating classical pottery shapes associated with water and cleansing ceremonies.

Tidal Bather I
Plaster gauze, wood, wire, mesh, cardboard, tape, newspaper, cyanotype prints on cotton, thread, beads, macrame coral.
20in x 27in x 15in
2017

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