Unveiled Agreements, Secrets in Silk and Cyanotype Artwork

Medium: silk wedding dress, cyanotype chemistry, wax forms, shoju paper, lights The work came out of my thinking around the similarities between a marriage contract and the legal processes of adoption as both share the idea of the transfer of one human from one kind of family into another. I am both an adoptee and a married woman. Each of these states have to some extent, disrupted my own sense of who I am and fundamentally altered the ways in which people understand me and what I signify. Both adoption and marriage are symbolic beginnings for individuals who already have their own history. Both require a legal process and contract that sets out a new state and negates what went before. Cyanotype only works on natural materials, this is why the wedding dress is silk. I chose the shoju paper because of its strength and translucence. Wax was also chosen for its translucent properties. The work requires a strong light to cast the shadow on the paper and it takes up a lot of space in order that the viewer can walk around the dress and cast their own shadow on the paper panels. This work is a further development of ideas that were explored in the filmed piece Azul which can be seen here https://vimeo.com/612972367. That work explored the narrative possibilities of the development process of cyanotype that occurs in water.

Mixed Media:Fabric on Soft (yarn, Cotton, Fabric)

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:118.1 W x 118.1 H x 118.1 D in

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