. . . A Pattern, A Process, A Price . . .

Using imagery and text pulled from a stranger's 1942 Home Economics assignment, I create backdrops and compositions for the discoveries made while reading a forgotten and overlooked piece of feminine history. I construct tableaus based on a woman named Jeanne's essay on how to improve the softness of her hands, her descriptions of ideal fashions for date night, and her collages of handbags and accessories cut from popular magazines of the time. Found on eBay, the popular albeit impersonal online swap meet website, my purchase provides me with only a brief one-dimensional view of Jeanne's life and history. By using what little information I have, I design layered and colorful compositions that frantically try to capture and posess, in two dimensions, a life and values of a woman about whom I will never know anything more.