White collar with white rice and cotton thread.
Aram uses her art practice to bring attention to under-appreciated immigrant labour. In this performance the use of rice calls upon the parallels of immigrant mothers and the mythological Rice Mother; she ...
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White collar with white rice and cotton thread.
Aram uses her art practice to bring attention to under-appreciated immigrant labour. In this performance the use of rice calls upon the parallels of immigrant mothers and the mythological Rice Mother; she sacrifices herself and the first rice plants grow from her body. By stitching and piercing thousands of individual grains of rice, Aram connects with her own mythology of her seamstress mother who performed manual labor to feed the family.
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