Headless Female Meat Mechanism 6
by Amy E Fraser
Title
Headless Female Meat Mechanism 6
Artist
Amy E Fraser
Medium
Mixed Media - Drawing
Description
Headless Female Meat Mechanism 6 by Amy E. Fraser (1997) is part of her Women As Pattern series. The images in the series are expressive, colorful; hand crafted, one of a kind, pen and ink, pattern designs featuring the female form. This work was developed through the process of old school xerography, completed with pen and ink, markers, and colored pencil in 1997 and then digitally updated in 2019 for your Print on Demand pleasure. All images copyright Amy E. Fraser. All rights reserved.
The Women As Pattern series was part of Amy E. Fraser’s senior thesis project at Parsons School of Design. This series of pen and ink drawings depicts powerful conceptions (and frequently misconceptions) of women while exploring, re-envisioning and inventing new Pagan, Feminist, Humanist and Womanist symbolism. Amy’s work with pattern as a Feminist Statement was inspired by the work of the Pattern and Decoration movement and the Feminist Art movement established during the late 1970’s. Artists of that time period were working toward eliminating the sexist and racist assumptions underlying Western art historical discourse. They wanted to reassert the value of ornamentation and aesthetic beauty, qualities that were primarily assigned to the feminine sphere. Floral imagery, patterning, and decoration are most commonly associated with the feminine and often viewed as “less than” in an art historical context. As a means to further elaborate the feminine, Amy uses the female form itself as a means to develop pattern, creating provocative images to ignite feminist discourse. Decades later, she continues the process of challenging conceptions of “Women’s Work” to elevate and revalue its rightful status as Fine Art and as a means to honor the important creative works of her fore-mothers. For further reading on Women’s Work, the P&D artists, and Women as Pattern, visit the Amy E. Fraser Art Blog.
Xerography, Xerox Art or Copy Art, is the time consuming, often tedious process where the artist is required to take numerous trips back and forth to the corner copy shop, drawing, cutting, layering, and repeating, until the pattern’s completion. Most people, (even smart young ladies who went to super fancy art schools) did not have regular access to computers, and quite frankly, wouldn’t have known what to do with a computer if they did. Back in 1997, there was no miraculous "make pattern" button available to the masses.
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December 13th, 2019
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