Lippy
The feminine lips that make up the pattern of this shirt embodied for me the antiquated expectation of women: to be seen and not heard. To be feminine. To be beautiful. While progress has been made, women are too often still judged more on their appearance than anything else. This piece was created to articulate that more important than what is on a woman’s lips are the words that come out of them. To this end I embroidered a zipper opening across a set of these lips with the words “be heard” beneath as a reminder that we can’t be silenced.
The feminine lips that make up the pattern of this shirt embodied for me the antiquated expectation of women: to be seen and not heard. To be feminine. To be beautiful. While progress has been made, women are too often still judged more on their appearance than anything else. This piece was created to articulate that more important than what is on a woman’s lips are the words that come out of them. To this end I embroidered a zipper opening across a set of these lips with the words “be heard” beneath as a reminder that we can’t be silenced.