Marital Constraints

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Artist: Janine Brown

Title: Marital Constraints

Attribution: Marital Constraints, 2023, Janine Brown

Year: 2023

Materials: Home-cooked bioplastic, artist's financial statements, crochet thread, artist's and artist's mother's wedding dress

Dimensions: 20" x 20" x 14"

Image Statement: In this work, I combine a home-cooked bioplastic with the paper pulp of my financial statement. The "material" was stitched together using leather crafting/crochet techniques to make the corset. I have used my mother's (and my) wedding dress with the corset to represent ideals of marriage and constraints within marriage that are passed down through generations.