I transformed gender-stereotyped rough hand tools identified with masculinity, into soft handmade rag items exuding childhood innocence, warmth and domesticity, and identified with female handicrafts.
I used curtains, clothing items and objects found in my childhood home, which have fallen out of use and have come to represent a gender-related discourse. In doing so, I suggested unravelling and sewing anew the line between the masculine and the feminine, the domestic and the uncanny, high art and handcraft.
Gender-stereotyped hand tools identified with masculinity are converted into soft rag dolls associated with motherhood, homely warmth and childhood innocence.
Fabrics, sewing threads, acrylan silicon, 160X160 cm