"Oppositions", 1982

(MFA Thesis exhibition at Hunter College, CUNY)

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The viewer is asked to lift a panel on the work in order to see the text below. It is a viewer participatory installation piece about the Vietnam War.

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It represents a woman’s stance against the Viet-man war using self-portraits of the artist in bondage (exterior panel)  and various paraphrased articles and texts about the war (interior). 

notes from written script

Public horror - private pain 

United by symbolic fabrics (writing) text paraphrased from the books about the war
Juxstaposed against image photographed by the artist depicting self as sex and vicitm