For There She Was, She 2 Collage

For There She Was includes over a hundred embroidered, burned, dyed and collaged images. The series is about the consumption and negation of women’s identities. I digitally manipulate photographs of women from clothing catalogues and reprint the new images on recycled paper. I then stain pieces of fabric using natural dyes that I brew in my kitchen with avocados, turmeric, cabbage, and red wine to represent the physicality of womanhood and this notion that gender identities and roles are inevitable, natural, and fixed. As a reference to the paper dolls that women play with as young girls; I carefully cut up the photographs, then pair each image with a piece of fabric and finally add the embroidered stitching with a sewing machine. By covering each figure and reducing each one to a mere imprint or shadow, their presence is reinforced. The women are still there. The title of the series is from the last line of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.

Collage:Paper on Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:11.7 W x 8.3 H x 0 D in

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