https://denisepepper.art/mywork daily 1.0 2020-01-01 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a14c8054c0dbf45ea41c05b/t/5a49ba9b24a694278effa8f5/1513149365938/ My Work - STRAIGHT LACED COLLAR (2015) My first consideration for my art piece is that Lace would have been considered a prized commodity in colonial life, a contradiction to the daily hardships but nonetheless an emblem of wealth and success. Women (as wives) were perhaps in charge of keeping up standards in the family, providing respectability. A fragile lace collar worn for Sunday best shows a willingness to invest an extra effort keeping it clean and in good order in what would have been difficult circumstances. It may not have necessarily been a choice for women to retain this show of respectability as washing and care in house work would have always been considered a women’s role and the wearing of a luxury lace collar rigidly and visibly forces a woman into the idea of what a respectable women should look like in a harsh colonial life. ‘Straight-laced’ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a14c8054c0dbf45ea41c05b/t/5c2aee2c40ec9ab2ea3aa745/1546317362312/She+Sailed+the+Seven+Seas+web+optimised+%281%29.jpg My Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a14c8054c0dbf45ea41c05b/t/5c2b01a4758d46566d0ea557/1546316767519/ My Work - SEQUIN_tial Reflections (2019) This years submission follows on from last year’s photo bomb continuing the opportunity to explore our fascination for what is shiny and glitters. However I reflect that this allure has become an environmental hazard due to the obsession we have to use microplastics. Sequins made originally from glass or metal are today predominately a non-biodegradable co-polymer plastic and being small, difficult to recycle, the reflective sequin along with successive glittery micro plastics find there way sequentially into the food chain as an appealing potential food item. These images are artist impressions of the final work. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a14c8054c0dbf45ea41c05b/t/5c2b077caa4a995f08bd1267/1546319665521/ My Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a14c8054c0dbf45ea41c05b/t/5e0c935afbd22f2548f0b0fd/1577882413110/She+Sailed+the+Seven+Seas+web+optimised+%2810%29.jpg My Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a14c8054c0dbf45ea41c05b/t/5e0c9393f579a06feb978b94/1577881907388/ My Work - SEQUIN_tial Reflections This sculpture follows on from last year’s photo bomb and continues the opportunity to explore our fascination for what is shiny and glitters. However I reflect that this allure has become an environmental hazard due to the obsession we have to use microplastics. Sequins made originally from glass or metal are today predominately a non-biodegradable co-polymer plastic and being small, difficult to recycle, the reflective sequin along with successive glittery micro plastics find there way sequentially into the food chain as an appealing potential food item https://denisepepper.art/biocontact daily 0.75 2020-09-21 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a14c8054c0dbf45ea41c05b/t/5a3c94c141920253efbf4d67/1513919883368/Denise-Pepper.jpg Bio/Contact