Reproduction Production

  • Acrylic Yarn (Caron One Pound in Rose)

  • This piece weighs approximately 2.75 pounds and is made of over a mile of yarn. It is made up of around 30,000 double crochet and chain stitches.

Innocent 1, 2, 3, 4

  • Vintage doll dresses, pressed flowers, cyanotype fabric print of my mother’s handwriting, written in a travel journal she kept before I was born, old film slides gifted to me by a friend, and watercolor crayons.

The Bank Took my Mom

  • Cardboard, marker, tape

  • This is a found object cut from a cardboard sign left behind by an artist selling their work on the streets of my hometown in Chattanooga, TN. I found it around 2019, and have carried it with me since.

G

  • Denim and needle felted wool.

  • This is one of the few alphabet letters across the gallery taken from children’s alphabet books. This letter is from FOTOGRAFISCH ABC BOEK by Piet Lied, published in the Netherlands in 1920.

Ultrasound

  • Fabric screen-printed with the outline of a thrifted doily.

Time Out (I’m Calling on God for Purity)

  • Turkish rug, stuffed animals

  • Title taken from Kendrick Lamar’s United in Grief

Women Have it So Easy

  • Cyanotype fabric

  • Doily, image of the artist as a baby, text from TikTok by @babbers5 in 2022, text from the February 1990 edition of the magazine “Good Housekeeping.”

Girl (Illegible)

  • Caron One Pound Yarn

  • Says “girl” in cursive with a heart over the i when displayed flat.

LADYLIKE (a pleasure to have in class)

  • Caron One Pound Yarn, hand-pieced quilt squares, polyester filling, assorted fabric.

A Show By…

  • Assorted fabric, watercolor crayons.

(she’s a) MOUTHFUL

  • Jersey fabric, white cotton bedsheet, watercolor crayons

DEATH TOLL: 31,920 stitches to represent the 31,920+ Palestinians murdered in the last six months.

  • Lionbrand Respun Yarn in the color Whip Cream, made of 100% recycled plastic.

  • This piece took more than 30 hours and uses the half-double crochet stitch exclusively. The yarn on the ground represents the unfinished nature of this genocide.

I’m not ready to be a father now.

  • Muslin, lace, screen printed fabric, cyanotype, Caron One Pound yarn

  • This piece uses text from Childcraft’s 1972 Vol 14 About Me book for children, a print of an etching made of a clown fetus, text from a 1995 magazine quoting Admiral Richard Macke of the U.S. Pacific Command on the abduction and rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl by 3 U.S. Servicemen (“For the price they paid to rent the car, they could have had a girl.” Text from the women’s magazine Off Our Backs. A hand reprinted from Gordon Park’s 1963 photo “Muslim Rally.” Screen prints of a doily done by me, screen print of fish by friend Rebecca Wolsten.

Quiet/Good Girl

  • Black latex-like material, printed muslin fabric.

  • This is a single page spread from my junior book PLAIBBBBOY.

Opportunity (alphabet blocks), Sincerity (found fabric), Vanity (ceramic mirror), Piety (manual on church discipline), Chastity (ceramic phallus), Femininity (doily)

  • 1989 Alphabet Blocks, found fabric, thrifted doily, ceramics, 1844 manual on church discipline.

  • Viewed from above, the alphabet blocks spell the artist’s initials (MAW).

Acknowledgements

  • Polyester filling, cyanotype, book dedication text, photograph of my parents taken at Sears.

MRS. BLESSED TO BE HERE

  • Assorted fabric, yarn, glue, cardboard, tape, fishing line, denim, screen printed fabric.

  • Letter H is from McLoughlin Bros Baseball ABC (1885).

Bachelorette

  • Quilters cotton, thrifted bedsheets, screen-printed cotton, hand-pieced quilt squares.

  • This piece was completed in August 2023 at a curvy quilt workshop taught by Sherri Lynn Wood at Madeleine Island School of the Arts in Wisconsin. I tried to combine color combinations I would not usually put together, and ended up being very pleased with the result. This piece’s title is taken from the fact that I was just realizing I was about to get engaged when I was making the work. The color wedge in the top left corner, repeated throughout the quilt (maroon, maroon with flowers, white, patterned, yellow) was meant to represent these emotions.

Baptism (in the name of)

  • Muslin fabric, cyanotype.

  • This piece uses cyanotypes of my handwriting “I CAN’T HANDLE MYSELF,” an old text piece I made when I was doing worse than I currently am, a poem written about church and desire, and two piece of my underwear.

Please Take Me Home

  • Paper, ink, thread, lace, linocut fetus.

  • This piece uses three handwritten monoprints, a scrap of a cyanotype, and a bigger monoprint with the fetus linocut repeatedly printed on top.

Star Student (Rough Around the Edges)

  • cotton, fleece, bedsheets, men’s tie, cyanotype, muslin fabric, denim, needle felted wool.

  • A lot of this piece was completed in collaboration with artists at Madeleine Island School of the Arts. Cyanotype of me as a baby, embryo from embryology textbook, and other found text/images. The alphabet letters are from the following books: A is from Bruno Munari’s ABC (1960), B is from Piet Lied’s FOTOGRAFISCH ABC BOEK (1920), C is from Gerald Witcomb’s Alphabet Book (1979).

I’m So Un-Perfect, It’s Beautiful.

  • Sequined fabric, muslin, thick black fabric, white paint pen, vintage doll dresses and bloomers, printed clock, cyanotype, fabric scraps, quilter’s cotton, hand pieced quilt squares.

  • The letter F is from Christopher Lazare’s Alphabet Rhymes (1938), the E is from Piet Lied’s FOTOGRAFISCH ABC BOEK (1920). Cyanotypes of the artist and quote from Lao Tzu. Written text mostly spontaneous, some quoted from letters written to the Off Our Backs magazine by incarcerated women.

Dexterity (ceramic hand), Security (blanket), Identity (plaster cast)

  • Ceramic with glass, 2001 Gymboree Baby Blanket (the artist’s baby blanket), plaster cast of the artist’s face.

She knew that the higher up she went… (crayon) | …the farther she could see. (crayon drawing) | Prenatal/Antepartum (fetus and cord)

  • Caron One Pound Yarn, polyester filling, assorted fabric, fluffy yarn, needle-felted wool, two previous pieces completed by the artist stuffed inside the “womb” (unmade untitled, giant clown shoe).

One day, when I am a woman.

  • Caron One Pound Yarn, denim, hand-pieced quilt squares, text from Childcraft’s 1972 Vol 14 About Me book for children, x-ray of the artist’s teeth, handwriting of the artist, photo of the artist and her father, cyanotype, text from the magazine Off Our Backs about the murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian in 1998.

  • The letter k is taken from Gerald Witcomb’s Alphabet Book (1979)

No Birthday Party (animation)

  • I am incredibly grateful to archive.org for the amount of material it offered me for this project. The visual sources from which I drew are too numerous to list here. The audio that begins the film is taken from Vito Acconci’s 1971 work Waterways: 4 Saliva Studies and is the sound of him swishing spit in his mouth. Audio from Takeshi Murata’s abstract short film Untitled (Pink Dot). These first two sources were found through the Electronic Arts Intermix website. The first vocal sample is from the 1980 documentary The Pinks and the Blues which “probes the subtle ways in which parents and teachers condition babies and young children to accept traditional sex roles” (https://archive.org/details/NOVAPinksandtheBlues). The final vocal sample comes from Jean Kilbourne’s 1987 work Still Killing Us Softly: Advertising’s Image of Women (https://archive.org/details/stillkillingussoftlyadvertisingsimageofwomen). The typewriter sound at the end is from the video “Typing a Letter with an Olivetti Typewriter for ASMR & Relaxation” uploaded by user Ephemeral Rift on YouTube.

  • No Birthday Party