Tool handles, ranging in scale from paintbrush to push broom and given coiffures, suggest connections between domesticity and labor, feminine personality and portraiture.
I was looking for manifestations of the human form in everyday objects that are designed to be grasped or touched. The tools have been given clay features; the features have also been "aged" through s...
The gloves suggested preoccupations with revealing and containing the feminine form, and escape through role playing and costume. The making of them called to mind traditions of women’s handwork, pa...
Claire Watson
UNITED STATES
I’m interested in objects that self-contradict, or that invert received meanings. I work in series; the images here are representative of three recent and ongoing bodies of work. In "Tools for Today," objects ranging in scale from paintbrush to push broom suggest connections between domesticity and... [Read More]
