Description
About this piece:
The At Risk: Female series examines the impact of gender roles and expectations on the health and well-being of girls and women at the turn of the last century. The first At Risk: Female book took up the topic of pregnancy and childbirth; At Risk: Female II shines a light on the historic practice of corseting. Corsets were believed to be necessary not only for shaping the developing figure but for supporting posture and bone growth in young children, even as organs were compressed and movement was restricted. At Risk: Female II traces the life of one young woman bound in such a way; her photograph, showing off her fashionably tiny waist, gradually fades away with each page of admonition and environmental risk.
This is the second in a series. Both books are blizzard books built from crinoline, but each book tells a different story in text and photographs. The cover material is also different in the two books.
Materials:
fabric, thread, photographs, paper
About the artist:
Lives and works in Denver, Colorado
Heather Doyle-Maier is a book artist who uses fabric, thread, paper and text to create unique, small-edition, and installation artist’s books. Inspired by both traditional and contemporary book structures, Heather explores the intersection of form and content while examining themes of domesticity, motherhood and femininity. Heather’s award-winning work has been exhibited locally, regionally and nationally and is held in university and private collections; she also teaches workshops on creative bookmaking and on supporting the creative process. Heather lives and works in Denver, Colorado.
