Antoinette Project

The Marie Antoinette Project is based on a treasure trove of inspiration including books, movies, and the textile library at the de Young Museum. It seems poetic that after exorbitant purchases, economic downfall and a revolution, that only a single shoe, baby bonnet, a small corset and a swatch book of fabrics remain. I have been working to recreate items symbolic of Marie Antoinette and create a faux store.

 

 

The handmade book made for Marin MOCA has a print of a 1783 receipt of Marie Antoinette's expenditures and contemplates the effect that she had on the French economy and the silk industry in France.

Antoinette's Receipts
Digital print on cotton, hand dyed silk, polyester
7.5" x 5" x 5"
2011

Antoinette's Wig - Blue
Faux hair, fabric, fabric flowers, glass buttons
16” x 16” x 12”
2011

Antoinette's Wig - Pink
Faux hair, fabric, feathers, glass buttons
20” x 16” x 14”
2011

Antoinette's shoes
Polyester, silk, wood
9” x 8” x 4” / 13” x 10” x 3”
2010 - 2011

Pink Shoe - Ruffle
Hand dyed silk, muslin, buckram, ribbon, vinyl, wood, polyester.
10” x 7” x 3”
2011

Pink Shoe - Flock
Hand dyed silk, muslin, buckram, ribbon, vinyl, wood, Sculpy, flock
6” x 15” x 3”
2011

Powder Table
Metal table, powder puff
25” x 11” x 11”
2011

Cakes & Candy
Faux hair, ribbon, fabric flowers
2” x 9” x 6”
2011

Ruddle - Hair Candy
Faux hair, ribbons, fabric flowers
2” x 10” x 8”
2011

pink small wig

Ruddle - Small Pink Wig
Faux hair, fabric flowers
4” x 11” x 7”
2011

antoinettesbirds

Ruddle - Antoinette's Birds
Video, Ruffled fabric
7’ x 10’ x 2”
2009

 

 

Redlist Project


The Redlist Project is an installation in process and is inspired by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The IUCN Red List catalogues plants and animals that are at risk of extinction. Species are listed as Extinct, Extinct in the Wild, Critically Endangered, Endangered and Vulnerable, Near Threatened and Least Concern.

The common theme I have noticed so far is that if a species is at risk - its  habitat is at risk, mostly due to the impact that humans have on their environment.

The work in these pieces will be centered around the use of ribbons as ribbons have a cultural history of awareness building, commemoration and mourning.

 

redlist

Ruddle - Redlist Project
Glass Jars, Labels, Fabric
2009


redlist2

Ruddle - Redlist Project (ongoing)
Glass jars, labels, fabric, crude oil
3.5” x 24.75” x 3”
2010

 

 

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