Human Characteristics of an Object.
Women’s garments James Joyce seemed to find as exciting as their bodies. ‘Material On The Head’ and ‘My Love Wears Light Attire’ are self-portraits. I wear a kitchen mop head on my head and an old reclaimed bedroom lampshade like a hat or garment. Why do you wear these cursed things? Joyce would ask Nora when she went to bed in her corset. Please take off that breastplate as I do not like embracing a letterbox. The wearing of domestic objects is playful. The wearing of a corset was compulsory. Different rules for different times. The objects morph into my head taking over my identity. They inhabit the position of my face. I am living in them it seems. Like Nora’s corset, the domestic sphere restricts the body. The corset was of her time. The domestic is mine. The kitchen mop and the lampshade now an identity in their own right are cursed things. Functional. Forever there ......
The Morphing Feminine, my response/reaction to and possibly a re-reading of various aspects of the feminine in James Joyce 's novel Ulysses. The Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin 1, Ireland. 17th of June to 20th of July, 2020.
© 2021 Vicky Smith. All rights reserved.
Women’s garments James Joyce seemed to find as exciting as their bodies. ‘Material On The Head’ and ‘My Love Wears Light Attire’ are self-portraits. I wear a kitchen mop head on my head and an old reclaimed bedroom lampshade like a hat or garment. Why do you wear these cursed things? Joyce would ask Nora when she went to bed in her corset. Please take off that breastplate as I do not like embracing a letterbox. The wearing of domestic objects is playful. The wearing of a corset was compulsory. Different rules for different times. The objects morph into my head taking over my identity. They inhabit the position of my face. I am living in them it seems. Like Nora’s corset, the domestic sphere restricts the body. The corset was of her time. The domestic is mine. The kitchen mop and the lampshade now an identity in their own right are cursed things. Functional. Forever there ......
The Morphing Feminine, my response/reaction to and possibly a re-reading of various aspects of the feminine in James Joyce 's novel Ulysses. The Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin 1, Ireland. 17th of June to 20th of July, 2020.
© 2021 Vicky Smith. All rights reserved.
