5 1/2 inches x 8 1/2 inches

Encaustic crayon collage on 140lb cold pressed water color paper.

“Working Woman” is a spinoff open editioned series of "Working Mother." Using black and white prints of passed down sewing patterns from my mother’s collection and crayons snuck away from my son’s boxes, I attempt to connect two different generations while reflecting on my own experience adjusting to - and separating myself from my “Mother” title for at least 8 working hours each day.

Through the inability to control each encaustic crayon splatter paired with the precise trim around each sewing pattern model, this series attempts to embody the tension of being a working mother today. Between the unpredictable, colorful chaos and the outdated expectations placed upon women – as a mother by choice, in a country simultaneously eliminating women’s right to choose, I find myself in new, alarmingly unsustainable, and scary territory.

While at first glance, I hope the viewer feels a childlike joy and curiosity before realizing what they are really looking at is nothing short of an explosion.

This original piece is available and ships from Brooklyn, NY in five to seven business days.

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