Show and Tell
This blog is the perfect place for me to share this with you. I am probably the only person in the world who has a bra made from a voltmeter-ammeter panel.
Last year I was walking through the Castro neighborhood near where I live in San Francisco when I came upon an estate sale. Many of the belongings I found inside the house leaned toward the campy animal print ilk, but on the mantelpiece were three metallic brassiere sculptures. The mechanical one with propellers on the nipples was already spoken for, but to my delight I was able to take away this electrically-themed beauty for a hundred bucks.
Too bad the artist didn’t sign her (or his) work. Most guests to our house notice and comment on it, though, so it clearly makes a statement!
Does anyone else have girl-geek-themed artwork or artifacts? Or imagery that confounds received notions in our culture about how girls and women are supposed to relate to science, technology, and other geeky fields? Please share!
November 7th, 2006 at 4:13 pm
Does posting pictures of your rig (ie: custom PC, console) count as artwork? Because the more I’m adding lighted fans (I’m currently looking to see if pink LED lights exist for a cooling fan) and piecing together my PC, the more I think “Wow, that’s art… or at least, artistic”
November 7th, 2006 at 6:36 pm
That is the coolest bra ever! Wow.
A friend of a friend had a (slightly more disturbing) piece of feminist/scientific art. She put her extracted uterus into a gorgeous glass display bottle, complete with medical label, which she used to decorate in a store that she owned in Los Angeles called Sometimes Madness is Wisdom. Apparently it was quite difficult for her to get the hospital to release the uterus to her, even though it had come out of her body! Another friend of a friend did something similar with her aborted fetus.
November 7th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
Angelicnoir, I definitely think that any sort of decoration that authentically comes out of your building process counts as artwork! Upload it, for sure!
Annalee–wow! That piece sounds like what you’d get if you crossed some of Kiki Smith’s early work with that Damien Hirst shark-in-a-tank sculpture…