Sculpture

For this piece, I wanted to create a dress out of masculine clothing. I sewed dress shirts as well as ties to form a skirt. Then, it was attached to a polo shirt that acted as a bodice. I wanted to comment on the way we view clothing as gendered and blur the lines for what is stereotypically meant for women or for men.

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2. Immaterial Processes and Elements

In reference to Martha Rosler’s work titled Semiotics of the Kitchen”, i created my own performance regarding gendered work in domestic spaces. The performance mirrors a sort of beauty youtuber that focusses on hair. I wanted to touch on the ways we seek online videos to help us develop as people, much how i used these videos to learn about my own hair and body. I decided to encorporate garage tools and the garage space to comment on gendered spaces and work.

For this piece the force I decided to utilize was a sewing machine. For each article of clothing I let the sewing machine move on its own without controlling where it was fusing the material. I decided to put together an outfit with the articles of clothing that represented a very stereotypical masculine ideal. These are also unused clothes from my closet that are now shut and unwearable, much like the stereotypical gender roles for manhood.

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