The artist’s deconstructed bras, t-pins, tracing paper, ink, tracings from 18th and 19th century botanical illustrations.
2024
In each Specimen, every component from a single deconstructed bra that used to be worn by the artist is spread out and pinned directly to the wall with various lengths of t-pins. Pinned underneath these textile fragments are layers of partial and incomplete tracings of 18th and 19th century botanical illustrations of bisexual flowers (flowers with both male and female reproductive structures).
The artist’s deconstructed bras, t-pins, tracing paper, ink, tracings from 18th and 19th century botanical illustrations.
2024
The artist’s deconstructed bras, t-pins, tracing paper, ink, tracings from 18th and 19th century botanical illustrations.
2024
The artist’s deconstructed bras, t-pins, tracing paper, ink, tracings from 18th and 19th century botanical illustrations.
2024
The artist’s deconstructed bras, t-pins, tracing paper, ink, tracings from 18th and 19th century botanical illustrations.
2024
The artist’s deconstructed bras, t-pins, tracing paper, ink, tracings from 18th and 19th century botanical illustrations.
2024
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The artist’s deconstructed bras, lingerie, and underwear; “diagram of a perfect picotee” (1850); sequin pins, satin pins, and dressmaker’s pins; tracing paper; grease pencil; marker
150 x 144 x 3”
The artist's deconstructed bras, lingerie, and underwear are pinned directly to the wall using sequin pins, satin pins, and dressmaker’s pins of various lengths. A tracing of the "Diagram of a Perfect Picotee", from "Gardeners' Magazine of Botany, Horticulture, Floriculture, and Natural Science" (1850) is pinned to the wall beneath the textile fragments.
2024
The artist’s deconstructed bras, lingerie, and underwear; “diagram of a perfect picotee” (1850); sequin pins, satin pins, and dressmaker’s pins; tracing paper; grease pencil; marker
150 x 144 x 3”
The artist's deconstructed bras, lingerie, and underwear are pinned directly to the wall using sequin pins, satin pins, and dressmaker’s pins of various lengths. A tracing of the "Diagram of a Perfect Picotee", from "Gardeners' Magazine of Botany, Horticulture, Floriculture, and Natural Science" (1850) is pinned to the wall beneath the textile fragments.
Oh, That I Could Run Wild!
2024
Sequins and threads from the artist’s deconstructed bandeau top; satin pins, and dressmaker’s pins
140" x 155" x 2"
Sequins and threads from the artist’s deconstructed bandeau top are pinned directly to the wall using satin pins and dressmaker’s pins. A pile of sequins is spread on the ground below. The composition references the 1850 illustration, "Diagram of a Perfect Picotee", with sequins spreading out across the wall from the central radial circles. The threads are only pinned at the top, freely swaying and catching on the sequins pinned to the wall below.
2024
Sequins and threads from the artist’s deconstructed bandeau top; satin pins, and dressmaker’s pins
140" x 155" x 2"
Sequins and threads from the artist’s deconstructed bandeau top are pinned directly to the wall using satin pins and dressmaker’s pins. A pile of sequins is spread on the ground below. The composition references the 1850 illustration, "Diagram of a Perfect Picotee", with sequins spreading out across the wall from the central radial circles. The threads are only pinned at the top, freely swaying and catching on the sequins pinned to the wall below.
2024
64" x 13" x 4"
Partially unwoven gifted lace, handmade wooden bobbins, television, altered audio and video from “The Secret Garden” (1993)
Hand dyed, partially unwoven, gifted lace hangs over a video monitor that plays altered audio and video from the spring sequences from the 1993 film, “The Secret Garden”. The audio from the sequence of the film, which features an English children's choir, has been slowed down and layered. Handmade wooden bobbins hang from the unwoven lace threads at the bottom of the lace.
2024
The artist’s collected hair, preserved rose, baby turtle corpse, magnolia tree seed pod, pine cone, milkweed pod, pressed flowers, beetle carcass, sand dollar skeleton, stone, t-pins, paper, quotes from historic and contemporary botanical texts
36” x 48” x 3”
Description: Quotes from historic and contemporary botanical texts are printed on separate sheets of paper. Each quote is accompanied by a lock of the artist’s hair and a “curio” from their personal collection. Each lock of hair and object are sewn directly into the paper with alternating colors of thread. Each sheet is installed using 2 inch long t-pins pushed directly into the wall.
2024
The artist’s collected hair, preserved rose, baby turtle corpse, magnolia tree seed pod, pine cone, milkweed pod, pressed flowers, beetle carcass, sand dollar skeleton, stone, t-pins, paper, quotes from historic and contemporary botanical texts;
36” x 48” x 3”
Quotes from historic and contemporary botanical texts are printed on separate sheets of paper. Each quote is accompanied by a lock of the artist’s hair and a “curio” from their personal collection. Each lock of hair and object are sewn directly into the paper with alternating colors of thread. Each sheet is installed using 2 inch long t-pins pushed directly into the wall.
To Make the World a Bouquet
2024
Pyrex test tubes, thread, wood, beeswax, flowers
9" x 12" x 12" each
Two wooden disks are suspended from the ceiling by white thread that comes up through the center of each disk. This allows the disks to tilt and sway in space. Eight Pyrex test tubes rest at various depths in circles cut from each disk. Each test tube is filled with a rotting flower, mold, and fluid released from the flower and is sealed at the top with beeswax that drips down the sides of the tube.
2024
Pyrex test tubes, thread, wood, beeswax, flowers
9" x 12" x 12" each
Two wooden disks are suspended from the ceiling by white thread that comes up through the center of each disk. This allows the disks to tilt and sway in space. Eight Pyrex test tubes rest at various depths in circles cut from each disk. Each test tube is filled with a rotting flower, mold, and fluid released from the flower and is sealed at the top with beeswax that drips down the sides of the tube.