Lifeworks

For this project, I make biographical works art using anthropological research methods. Each piece focuses on important issues or events in the life of my interlocutor.  I record  life histories and do participant observation- a process that anthropologist Clifford Geertz aptly called "deep hanging out."  I get to know the places and people in the life of the person for whom I make the art. She participates in  selecting the  media, color or the dimensions  of the work and  at the end pf our work together, she receives the product of the exchanges.

I developed Matrice   using   in a collaboration with Juliann Allison. It  focuses on the emotional, physical and intellectual changes brought about by maternity.  In our article "Making Matrice" (below)  we examine the process of this inter-subjective art production.

Working with Juliann led me to extend my  work on  femininity in relation to body image, hair and beauty, a subject I have also studied in fieldwork in Morocco, Egypt and France.

Nape Tendril

Oil on Canvas

2015

36x 60

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Tangled

2015

Oil on Canvas

36" x 60"