Work from my Bachelor of Fine Art thesis show

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Here I used tampons and pads to spell out "Women" through binary code. The tampons and pads are ceramic. My father made the pedestal, and a student of mine made the red velvet pillow. This piece took the most time and care to make. It definitely had a presence in the show.

I had some negative comments from shorter people saying they didn't like how they couldn't see the top of the piece very well. I told them I almost decided to make this piece so tall that no one could really see the top clearly. However, I'm not that kind of artist. The idea is that we men can put women so high up on a pedestal, so I liked that it was difficult to view. When I said that, they took back their comment.

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Detail Shot

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In this line of work, using everyday objects as text, I wrote out concepts which I have struggled to grasp in binary code. I chose binary code because of its simple yet complex characteristics. In binary code, you either have a “1” or a “0”. It’s simply one or the other. However, when put together in a sequence they can represent characters which form words used for communication. Everything input into a computer has to be filtered through binary code. I compared this to the way people think. Everything I feel is brought into me through a language that I understand. The objects I choose may or may not make sense to everyone because it is the mental connection I make when I relate difficult concepts to my tangible, physical world. The viewer may be able to draw the same connections I do, or to their own ideas. These pieces also work as hieroglyphs in that sense, giving this body of work a bilingual quality that I enjoy.