Mother, The Most Sacred Word In The English Language.

 Artist statement: The work began as a response to the societal expectation of marriage, a path I ultimately chose to challenge. I refuse to be confined by the role of a wife and reject the notion of being limited by those expectations due to my gender. I explore the burden of these prescribed notions of female identity in domestication, and the negative stereotypes that follow the female image.

Exploiting the use of the vacuum cleaner as a metaphor of how the female body is related to the domestic object. Exploring how the inanimate creates the harmful stereotype of the female image due to the associations of the female body; focusing on the loss of identity when a woman is forced into the expected stereotype that is created by societal expectations and roles for the female gender. Challenging or disrupting that behavior is to subvert the conventional characteristic of the object to the unorthodox by changing the function or quality of the object.