Preordained Gender Role-Woman's Work

Preordained Gender Role-Woman's Work

Image created within Photoshop Elements 6.  

I aim to use this photo-layered artwork on an Apron 

I will print on to Photo fabric and sew to-gether giving woman's skills importance.   

Me with Apron-preordained and ready for woman's work training

Me as a young woman
(as any woman) working full time- low paid repetitive work  

Every Woman's Work-Instillation Photographed with black backdrop

Learning from your Mother and your Mothers' Mother-War Bride

Woman's Work is unglamorous and quickly becomes part of a woman's' every-day life within couples. 

 'War Bride' challenges this accepted norm of society. Not all women can be stitched  into place but need choice and creativity within their lives. 

Woman's Work as part of my Mothers 'Make-up'/War Bride/Pram Cover

A Woman in sand wedged into place by society and by the learning from each generation, Mother to Daughter.  Women can have fixed perimeters and be 'sewed into place' only allowing for 'Woman's Work' within the confines society allows depicted by  time in history.  

Creating Learning from your Mother and your Mothers' Mother- Mum War Bride

Learning from your Mother and your Mothers' Mother-Mum war Bride

The everyday tasks of many women

The everyday tasks of many women involve many domestic chores.  These chores involve repetitive work.  This repetitive work can be for the family and children as well as within the workplace.  I as well as many other women see it as 'their place' to do this boring repetitive work.  Marriage involves working for each other as well as compromising many choices.  Many men work hard and long hours( somtimes short hours like teaching involves home-work preperation ) my husband is still ferrying my adult children too and from many places which uses up time so tasks are shared but the bulk of the mundain household tasks often fall on the woman's shoulders and this is accepted by society.  I hope to include this as concept within my art Woman's work as the hand of a woman (my own) doing these many tasks and then at rest.

Black and White pre conceived life choice-Woman's Work