Grid for a Central Core Dickie

^{Grid for a Central Core Dickie}

detail view of the deep red ruffled collar of a latex sailor dickie, and the interior negative space behind it

A deep red latex dickie with pink trim draped over a custom scale concrete cinder block

^{The ruffled aperture defined by a latex sailor dickie opens to a space between the concrete coordinates of a form scaled to the dimensions of a torso. That central core references a tactic of visibility once argued as essential to a feminist aesthetic, anchoring its silhouette to a burdensomely heavy armature and producing an affectively sinking feeling, both because of the rigid quality of the aesthetic and the fact that so many of the animating concerns for second wave feminism have only incrementally shifted course in the personal and political landscape.}

^{cement, latex
12”w x 6”d x 24”h
2014}