Book project: pages 21 and 22

This book is titled 'Women and Other Women' by Hildegarde Hawthorn. These are photos of the twenty-first and twenty-second pages, the front and back of the sixth photo. I'm hand-sewing the photographs into the book, correlating the image with the text on the page. (The text is painted over, but is not opaque.) When you flip through the book, you see the image, the stitchings, and the backside's stitchings, which are sometimes more interesting than the fronts.

Sewing is a woman's task, as is the time spent sewing. White paint is used on house interiors to cover up things that shouldn't be seen. Women are constantly in relation to Other Women.

This image comes from the second chapter, titled "The Arrival of Woman." It talks about how Woman discovered that she is the same as a man-- a Human Being. However, until Woman starts to hold herself up to the same standards and respect as Man, she won't be treated the same. That is why I sewed the figure to look like she is a marionette, or a puppet on strings.