Unready to Wear is a series of images based on Kurt Vonnegut's short story of the same name published in 1953. The main characters in the story are hyper-aware of their physicality and seek an alternative lifestyle in which they separate their minds from their bodies. Yet they do not rid themselves of all bodies, instead they keep a select few that are deemed worthy by visual appearance, intellect, and health. The series of digital collages uses erasure as a technique for uncovering subordinate narratives, constructed from the existing text. Narratives attuned to the corporeality of bodies that are on display and always ready to wear, similar to fashions on a mannequin in a storefront.
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Dimensions: 16.5" H x 20.5" W each
Unready To Wear, #1: Gathered Up And Stuck Away
Unready To Wear, #2: A Good Reliable Body
Unready To Wear, #3: That Mind Was Sick
Unready To Wear, #4: Stuck In The Parade
Unready To Wear, #5: Fashions In Plaster Reproduction
Unready To Wear, #6: Marshal Her Hopeless Situation
Unready To Wear, #7: Death Lengthened Life
Unready To Wear, 2008-9
