1 photograph : lambda c-type photograph with silk-thread hand embroidery and natural specimens ; 41 x 31 cm, in mat 61 x 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, acquired with funds from the Bequest of Daniel S. Kalk
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
View catalog record for: Fairbrother, Jessa. Conversations with my mother.
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13021392
Classification:
Photographs
Notes:
"This particular piece of work began during the same time I was making Conversations with my mother in 2013 but I put it aside and came back to it a few years later--it seemed to be about something different in tone. It shows some of my early thoughts about armour [a new project], where I began to embellish the face with markings to mimic helmets. This wasn't right for the book, which [was] about my mother and I being at our most vulnerable and having no defenses at all ... My practice strongly revolves around the use of archetypes and how they permeate our everyday actions ... I [have spent] a long time thinking about the role of Mother--what it has meant to lose mine and how I cannot inhabit this role myself. I suspect much of my armour work that [has] followed Conversations with my mother is concerned with the Warrior archetype: literally defending myself against the role I cannot be, and against future narratives that are imposed upon me."--Artist's statement.
Subject Terms:
Fairbrother, Jessa. | Armor. | Vulnerability (Personality trait) | Grief in art. | Botanical specimens. | Women in natural history.
Form/Genre:
Photographs. | Chromogenic color prints. | Embroidery (visual works)