book project, pages 93 and 94

This book is titled 'Women and Other Women' by Hildegarde Hawthorn. These are photos of the 93rd and 94th pages, the front and back of the 24th 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 stitching a, and the back/reverse stitchings, which are often more interesting than the fronts. 

Sewing is traditionally 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. 

detail: "It turned upon the elopement of a married woman from a husband who was impossibly bad with a lover who was impossibly good, and under the chaperone of an aunt"