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Sisterhood

Hand Woven: Connection | Academy Center of the Arts, Lynchburg, VA | 2018

This is how my hand woven photo looks in the Academy gallery. I really like how Dee and the intensely costumed girl to her left play off of each other. Dee is naked and vulnerable and making an effort to reach out, to connect. And the child, who is a bit imprisoned by her suffocating wardrobe, glances at Dee in a sympathetic and understanding way. These two have formed an immediate bond, a sisterhood, plotting a silent escape from the bondage of their picture frames.