Study for One Woman’s Work: A Framed Portrait
26 x 22.5
ink, charcoal, watercolor
Statement: The wall hung sculpture One Woman’s Work: A Framed Portrait is a somber image of a relative dressed in mourning muslin framed by a colonial house fragment, her work place. This large sculpture was planned using preliminary studies with different ideas. The drawing presented for the HerStory250, Study for One Woman’s Work: A Framed Portrait is one of them. In this preliminary the person is an image of a young woman from my family’s collection. In this drawing she is sad and is waiting for people to return from the revolutionary war. She is pictured within an ill-kempt house symbolizing that the caregivers are gone, representing time, and an eroded history, yet she remains dressed in vigil. Unlike the larger sculptural representation, no window guard, screens, or even glass appears in her unprotected state. As in the sculpture, hanging over this window is the colonial symbol for unity, the Betsy Ross Flag shown frayed by long term display representing the many years of wars. During our 250th Anniversary, her portrait is readable, may appeal to a library audience as a reminder of individual grief, and contains threads that strengthened my imagination about the other 64 women in my family who were dealing with the turbulence of the Revolutionary War and Colonial Period.
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