Capture the Moon
‘To Capture the Moon’ is a series-in-progress of artworks taking a symbolist look at the subjugation of the feminine in the modern age. The moon in these works stands as a symbol for change – in our outward presentation and inner perceptions, of gender and the self. The medium of textiles is a fertile ground for these discussions, generally considered to be a traditionally “feminine” (although this is up for debate) discipline drug into modern respect by the toil and perseverance of women/queer bodies. The nets in these works are fishing nets—a major industrial contributor to the growth of the Great pacific Garbage patch. A fourth element is reflection and transformation, centered in the water itself. The moon reflects her face, sometimes incorporeal, sometimes as if she’s there in body (embodied?). This work allows space for meditations on the assaults on women’s rights in the modern era, plays with the substantial/insubstantial image of the moon and it conflates it with the “female body” a site for control. Except so many of those try to entrap the moon [the feminine body] do not understand its essence and therefore misunderstand, misrepresent, and miss the mark. The moon escapes and they chase and try again—a constant battle, for the body is still/once again the battleground.