Housedress

Title: Housedress

Place/Time: Elsewhere Artist Collaborative Residency, Greensboro, North Carolina
April-May 2011

Materials: fabric, discarded paperboard packaging, woodglue, housepaint, coffee/tea stain

Details:
Housedress explores whom I relate to in my community. Within this piece is my somber acknowledgement of the fact that I relate to and gravitate toward a community that I can never really be a part of. The house structures on Housedress, are similar to shantytowns with shared walls and barely held together roofs. I relate to these structures in part because they exist via a resourcefulness that is not visible in other communities. I feel connected to this community, yet will always be separate. Like the clothing I wear, I am of it, but not truly. Housedress is wearable, part of me for a brief moment. I can be in it and of it and it can provide a temporary sense of shelter and belonging. Within this work is the search for my community and my yearning to belong.