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The Dress Project
incomplete projects, glass jars, wooden hangers, masonite & canvas platforms
dimensions variable
2011
In the fall of 2009 in Champaign, Illinois, I found a box in family
storage. There were 17 bags inside the box, each containing the
required materials for different projects. None of the found projects
were finished; each was in a different stage of completion. Teresa
Peters had her first teaching job in Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1977.
During her first winter of teaching, these 17 projects began to
accumulate. I am now nearly the same age as my mother was when she
began these projects. After having been packed up for 30 years, I am
picking up where Teresa left off, and completing each project. By
finishing these projects, I am exploring the parallels between two
lives of a mother and daughter, 30 years apart.