Papier Mache with leather stitching
Artist Statement
All Brody’s work, book or otherwise revolves around the female figure. She has worked with books before in clay but this one is papier mache, lighter, more colorful, and less fragile. The book consists of 7 torsos and one full figure acting as a spine bound together into a book. The women in her family are matriarchal. Grandmother, Mother, Self, Daughter and Granddaughter. Each ‘page’ is a torso with the back containing writings about a family member. The back is another torso but on the inside of the figure are words about the children too young and mentions of son and grandsons. Artistic license has rewritten a few of the words but the book as a whole it is the musing of an 80 year old woman with a feminist bent on life, family, and art. The color is subdued in this essay, tans, golds, and red accents; the writing is in black ink.