MGP Andersen

Our bodies, our appetites and our relationships bind us. New products, chemicals and religions (every new relationship is a new religion) promise to free us, but I don’t believe we can be freed. All we can do is be aware of the problem and help each other with the tightest bonds. Sufficient depicts a common prison: the trap of what is just okay.

Joan Arbeiter

Can Anything Be Better Than Tide. Mixed media assemblage in Plexiglas shadow box. 21.75 x 17.25 x 2.25 inches. 2004

It took the Women’s Movement to help me to see these cute snapshots as a record of my being bound by prevailing gender roles. There are three main elements in this mixed media assemblage, beginning with a vintage photo of me during my formative years, then documents the time-frame in question with an authentic period magazine illustration and finally, updates and completes the message by including position statements from contemporary feminist books and periodicals.