**Please read prior to viewing “7/2008 Until The Cure”: Major Studio 1: Researching How The Art World Visualizes Data
Artist Statement:
I wanted to express how something beautiful from afar, can actually be quite painful, repetitious and laborious in it’s development. I wanted to indiscriminately package my past 12 years of approximately 43,800 finger pricks, 22,995 self delivered injections, and 365 pump sites within something colorful, layered and rich with texture– tough, but with a touch of femininity. This piece is meant to communicate the unusual dichotomy of pain, and the quiet isolation of a resilient experience that usually bares no visibility to others.
Every structural decision in this piece was intentional, from the use of all synthetic fabrics, heat-set pleated nylons and polyester blends, the use of top- applied bias ruffles (where fabric is forced against their woven grain), the body itself being a traditional cascade, the selection of stitches, to the insulin pump tubing keeping this arrangement in it’s alignment. Traditional tailoring methods without the use of a sewing machine, in tandem with the non-traditional painterly language of this instillation, speaks to the daily tension that is my experience with this condition.
Dimensions: 32″w (@ widest point) x 93″l
Materials: Silk taffeta, heat-set pleated nylon, polyester/spandex blend knits, felt, heat-set pleated poly chiffon, polyester thread, insulin pump tubing, tegaderm medical stickers.
My Process: Major Studio 1: Piece #1, My Process
