Somewhere between Painting and Sculpture the WALLS WITH SKIRTS, 1980 - 1981, combine painted plaster-textured canvas or plywood wall componants with paper or fabric "skirts". This metaphor of materials interlocks the public and the private; the architectural with the domestic, specifically the home, site of the traditional realm of Women's culture and both acknowledges and questions it. These fairly large pieces deal with this crossover between Architecture and Domesticity and blurr the line.
They also present visual reference to diverse cultural patterning and materials.
Materials include ceramic glass mosaic tiles and chards, millenary flowers, plywood and metal mesh. Specific references vary as to each piece but formally include a strong influence from the work of Antonio Gaudi whose architectural wonders I saw in Barcelona before beginning this body of work. The sculptural concerns that carries these pieces grew out of the large freestanding walls from the piece JOURNEY in 1978.
In installation the WALLS WITH SKIRTS functioned as auxiliary skins hanging on the walls - wall to wall...