Hanging dirty laundry
sweeping the floor
casting/mold making
collaborating with women
meaningcleaning
the spirit of Aloha
embroidery
...as "women's work"
memory of trauma embedded in the body
distortion of repression
the regret
traces/tracing
the shadow
angry marks
empathy
Below is a video I tried to link to about a year ago, but didn't know how to in blog-land. It's a video by Tania Katan, an artist whose work has inspired my own. Transforming her own experience with breast cancer into an entire body of work that (as I understand it) confronts, processes, and deals with trauma, tragedy and her own body. It's helped me lose a lot of fear about confronting my own issues of body trauma, pain, and art making.
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