Sawyer Rose

Sawyer Rose

San Francisco

California

USA

The Carrying Stones Project is an ongoing series of sculpture, data visualization, and
social practice works that explores women’s work inequity in its many forms.

Cooking, cleaning, childcare and eldercare responsibilities often still default to women, keeping them from
advancing at work and in society. Even community volunteerism—care-taking of the larger
community—falls disproportionately on women. This project documents the physical, emotional, and
practical effects of these imbalanced burdens.

The inequalities that working women face are both systemic and pervasive, and those biases affect
individual women differently. As such, the concepts for the Carrying Stones works are viewed through an
intersectional lens, and are distilled from the personal narratives of women of diverse ages, ethnicities,
orientations, working roles, and socio-economic statuses.

(Opening September 2019) “Counting the Hours: Art, Data, and the Untold Stories of Women’s Work,” Sculpture, photographic portraiture, social practice, from The Carrying Stones Project, Code and Canvas, San Francisco, CA (solo)

Art Market San Francisco, 2 main floor on-site installations from The Carrying Stones Project

Force of Nature: Women’s Work Visualized," sculpture, photographic portraiture, social practice, from The Carrying Stones Project, Classic Cars West Gallery, Oakland, CA. Curated by Dasha Matsuura, director, Spoke Art (solo)

"The Weight of Your World," social practice public interactive event, Classic Cars West Gallery, Oakland, CA

"Ties That Bind," public sculpture, social practice, and performance, from the Carrying Stones Project, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA (solo)

"Ties That Bind," social practice public sculpture assembly event, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA

"Ties That Bind," 10-minute performance with 13 actors, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA