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Forty-third series: See Me Tell Me Shifts: 36 Views of the Ruins of Zuccotti, ed. 100

This is the fourth of my See Me Tell Me Shifts series. The shifts are based on the thin, simple, summer dresses worn by fashionable New York women. The imagery for this newest series are the views of the now empty Zuccotti Square, the site of the small village of the Occupy Wall Street Movement that existed from September 17-November 15, 2011 until it was erased from existence. Each dress is made from 7 to 4 inch long piece of Japanese rice paper cut in the shape of a sundress. On the front is one of the 36 views of the empty square in homage to the great ukigo-e printmaker Hiroshige. The string sash has a face bead that refers to the human microphone employed by the protestors and the word “occupy” in letter beads. On the back are images of botanical rhizomes, symbolic of the social media networks that spread the word of the Occupy movement around the world. Included is a small plastic bag full a grass seed, a type of rhizome that symbolizes the growth and spread of the movement. This series was commissioned by Revolt Magazine. 25 of the works will be given away by the magazine and the rest will be placed out in the world.

Did you see one or add one to your collection? Tell me about it.