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Deborah Silver
from BOUND
Not Good for Her. Wool and cotton. 20 x 16 inches. 2012*
Too many women know someone who is with a man that doesn’t allow her to be the person she could be; a man who dominates her personality and subjugates her needs with his own. Too often, she not only refuses to acknowledge this fact, but defends his attitudes. She cannot see that she is being victimized. She is bound. This piece is for all of the women who can only look helplessly on and just say, “He’s not good for her.”
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Amy Siqveland
This piece explores how women are taught to view the world through rose-colored glasses, even when the backdrop is bleak. The scarf-bound model here is purposefully blinded, as we often are in love, but she is reclaiming a positive stance in the face of crisis—keeping hope alive even when the environment around her is pretty black and white in its outcome. She is not smiling, but is choosing to portray strength in optimism, while still including an awareness of her surroundings and the judgments about gender and anger.
Madelyn Smoak
Bee UnBound. Mixed media necklace. 22 inches. 2012
The theme, ‘Bound’, intrigued me, and I interpreted it to include sequestration: cloistering, or being bound to a particular place, person or time.
Gail Stouffer
Rules for Girls. Gouache, mixed media monotype on paper. 12 x 9 inches. 2012*
I explore issues of identity and contradiction in my work. The concept of being bound by society’s conventions and the internal struggles that can create with us is a subject ripe for exploration. The images that speak most to me are those that use humor to uncover our hypocrisy of being bound to conventions that we perpetuate and embrace.
B. Avery Syrig
My work speaks about the forces in modern culture which I call molds for living that paradoxically both bind and enable our experience with other people. These molds for living, which are designated without our individual input, give us both boundaries that hinder and structures to grow from. Within this web of societal demands, personal dreams, and the needs of reality, stressful tensions and beautiful predicaments are found.
