I can’t believe I haven’t written about the Ladies Home Journal series of collages. Made during my at home residency in 2022, these were the result of somewhat of a breakthrough in my creative process.
After discovering an old 1929 Ladies Home Journal in the bottom of a box I was thumbing through the pages thinking about how much has changed from then to now and yet how little has changed. How women, through the media, still experience a a pressure to conform to gender roles, standards of dress, appearance, behaviour and even wealth aspiration.
Suffice to say, in deconstructing the images in this magazine, I wanted to deconstruct the messaging that accompanied them. And yet, a hint remains.
The ideas I was exploring in this series sustain my practice today as I continue to explore themes of womanhood, aging, identity, gender disparity, feminism and the myriad concerns of living in the 21st century.
