SatinKnots

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Here is some of previously mentioned ‘cool stuff’.  Also, who knew its so hard to find cool wood boxes and tins?  I mean I guess I’ve always kept an eye out for them and come away empty handed but its so frustrating- I guess I’ll have to try more cigar stores…I mean it seems like something that should be easy to find, right?

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I just wanted to show you guys what I have been up to lately!  I was beginning to get carpal tunnel (bane of my existence) so I took an art break and am still trying to avoid embroidery for a little while longer.  But have no fear, I am a jack of all trades and am working on some book art and also collecting cool stuff (for lack of a better word) for some ready-mades.  Here is a work in progress shot of an altered book piece I have started!

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The Homemaker, 2011-2012

Most of my work centers around the Cold War; the history, the politicians, the space race, the arms race, the scientists, the policies and the movements.  I feel making this work about a war that ended the year I was born was natural for me.  I already have a fascination with psychology and what makes us as individuals who we are and why we act the way we do- why not try to discover why the world I live in does the things it does and why culturally we act the way we do?

While I made these piece I was thinking about the sudden panic that seemed to take place in the 1950s when women, who for the past decade had been given jobs in industry, were suddenly shoved back into the ‘home’.  Suddenly being the perfect feminine wife and mother was paramount- and what art for is more feminine then hand stitching?  And what could possibly on anyones mind more in the 1950s then the atomic bomb?

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