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Allyson Mitchell
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From floor to ceiling, folds of large pink pillows, soft drapes and carpeting comfort and cocoon. My installation creates feelings of unease as the participant confronts their fears of claustrophobia, genitalia, mortality and appetites. Hungry Purse refers to 21st-century addictions to consumption that result in credit card debt, over-shopping, and the lines of credit that swallow people up and overtax nature. My reworking of found textiles and handicrafts is a comment upon the excessive availability of second-hand goods that are loaded with emotion and sentimentality. Pinker than pink, the Hungry Purse is a symbol of the opposing virtues of femininity and 'girl power'. It is a rumpus room and a vortex womb - an affirmation of the feminized body.
Allyson Mitchell
Hungry Purse, 2010
Mixed materials
9’ 12’ x 12’
NFS
