For the last few days I’ve been stuck at home with a flu bug.
I’m awful company for anyone.
So is the bug.
So since I’m homebound, I’ve been finishing up an art bra that will be displayed at Paint the Town Pink, our annual fundraiser for Florence Crittenton Home. Mine is a teaser/sample bra for another fundraiser we’re having in August: “Support the Girls.” So this one’s title is, “Sassy Girls – Marvelous Moms.” It’s a multi-level visual pun. About motherhood. About the dichotomy between elegance and practicality; between picking up toys, wiping dirty noses or wearing a nursing bra — and stepping out in black sequins and stilettos. Can we be both Sassy and Sensitive? Can we be a hot-date and a marvelous mom at the same time? I think yes!
This piece is dedicated to the many teen mothers at Flo Crit who put their babies first, almost every one of them breastfeeding as long as possible even though they go to school, have jobs and other obligations. All trying as hard as they can to give their babies a healthy loving start in life. These young moms still long on some level to be kids (they are still kids.) Yet they obviously have grown-up responsibilities. And … not to forget, still have the same desires and dreams any teenage girl might have. She wants to succeed, to be pretty and smart and sassy and … have a hot date now and then. All that in addition to becoming a marvelous mom.

it's tactile mixed with visual ... alot of arranging and rearranging before anything gets sewn on or glued down
Check back Saturday morning for more pics of the final piece. And after PINK, for pics of the event. I hope I’m over this blankety-blank FLU by tomorrow night!
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