Thirteen Periods
2019
Material/Technique: brass bob and rods, clock movements, batteries
In Thirteen Periods, the pendulums correlate to the number of “normal” menstrual cycles occurring everytwenty-one days over a twelve-month period. The thirteen pendulums swing as individual movements within the structure of a year. The piece draws from becoming invisible as a women with age, the perception of the rhythm, regularity and functioning of the female body which is so far removed from the actual experience. Women value in society is based on our biological functionality, As a woman’s body ages and uterus’ biological function reduces, anxieties regarding cultural and personal expectations of motherhood become amplified. The out of sync swinging clock movements create a nervous atmosphere that relates to the shame and confusion of a non functioning, non normative female body.
The visual presentation of the subject in its removedness and simplicity hopes to address how we still only use experiences to compile statistics, reducing the issues to numbers we can compile, without addressing the underlying cause of antiqued perceptions of the female body and capitalism being geared towards satisfying the needs of men, rather than the population as a whole.