Demons, Virgins, and Whores
2000
Children’s toys, advertising postcards, and mirrors within drawers and
shelves.
The second in a series on the fragmentation of women’s bodies by our
culture. The media, including children’s animation, continues to
trivialize and sentimentalize women through their bodies. Strong
older women are evil and ugly and monsters. Young women become
icons of virtue and innocence and purity. Women who are strongly
sensual and attractive become sexualized into whores. These images
of women become internalized and dominate our language and our
psyches to the point of such dissonance with reality that they can
cause both physical illnesses (anorexia, bulimia, self-mutilation, i.e.
plastic surgery) and mental illnesses (depression, suicidal
tendencies).
2001
Handmade papers, Arabic gratitude saying in metal, keys, lock,
glass circle, plastic cube, cardboard box, gold circle from wine
bottle, red doll shoe.
A shrine honoring Einstein as a man who opened minds to the
mysteries of the universe and into new ways of knowing, a man
equally scientist and mystic.