| My interests
and concerns revolve around the concept of women’s roles
- home, family and the domestic sphere. My project is to
explore and understand how the gendered messages and myths
about these roles are embedded in our unconscious. The work
is comprised of many types of dolls and related objects
such as dollhouses and furniture, and more recently, manipulated
family photos, which serve as the iconography through which
I examine cultural roles, relationships and common experiences
related to domesticity. The intention is to inspect, consider
and question the traditional role of women in all its forms:
wife, mother, caretaker, and home keeper. Although no longer
in the throes of daily mothering, my life is rooted in family
issues and household concerns, and these experiences shape
the art making. My intent is to question the embedded attitudes,
opinions and beliefs regarding the value of woman’s work. |
