pencil and colored pencil on pages of an old cookbook
17.5 x 21.5″
The work is a drawing of my mother in her WWII Royal Air Force Bomber Command uniform. Instead of drawing paper, I used pages from ‘The Settlement Cookbook,’ a guide she was given to teach her how to be a ‘good American housewife’ upon arriving in the U.S as a war bride. I drew her military logo with its words “strike shard and strike sure’ floating to the right of her portrait. On the left, an old-fashioned stocking clip hangs like a war medal. Red stitches are drawn to represent the “woman’s work” of her new assigned role in America.
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