More on "Girl Claw"
I've recently become aware of my habit of carrying around a hundred trinkets in my hands wherever I go. l realized that I've never met a woman who can't do this, that all women have this skill and tendency. It became apparent that the overplayed complaints from millennial women not having large enough pockets during the skinny jeans era held some validity. Womenswear has historically been policed to prevent professionalism, preparedness, privacy, and safety from our fashion through design choices such as lack of pockets. This also increases consumerist spending tendencies for women.
In everyday, modern life outside of professional environments, these trivial goods are made more consumeristic for women because they are constantly on display. When our objects become a spectacle, they become significantly more expensive and unattainable. Without being displayed as a class or aesthetic signifier, what would be the functional purpose of choosing Dior Lip Oil ($40) over the E.L.F Cosmetics dupe ($8)? For better or worse, these are all objects for us to be judged on, admired for, and inconvenienced by.
More on "Sunny Side Up" and "Field Day"
These two tapestries are studies in both color and shape accuracy. Through these tapestries, I learned how to create the illusion of color blending or matching by strategically utilizing yarns of various hues, weights, sheen, densities, fiber content, and texture. Using Adobe Photoshop, I reduced the color content to ensure image legibility by calculating the EPI (ends per inch; thread count) to equal the image resolution and color quantity.
