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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://denisewhitebreadfanning.com/homeland-security.html" target="_blank">http://denisewhitebreadfanning.com/homeland-security.html</a>
Medium
sculpture
performance art
installation
Location
The location of the interview
Michigan
Artist Statement
Created from the perspective of mother, Homeland Security is an ongoing body of work comprised of (often futile or absurd) survival and escape gear made by a mother to protect her family and loved ones from a threatening array of inevitable tragedies or disasters, from simple domestic accidents to acts of terrorism and environmental catastrophes. Fusing the artist's converging interest in survival preparedness and mundane domestic survival, this body of work continues to manifest as a response to the ever present fears of the mother/caregiver, who, influenced by media and the societal commodification of fear, desires to protect that which she most fears losing. Using language culled from Survival Preparedness Handbooks which often doubles as domestic survival mantras, the work explores the line between utmost gravity and the absurd, between our real and daily dangers, and the sense of humor necessary for our survival. All of the work in this series speaks to human fears of loss and mortality, as well as the ego attached to the implied ability to prevent such mortal guarantees.
Topic
motherhood
protection
survival
disasters
accidents
survival planning handbook
survival preparedness
fear
maternal fear
mortality
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Title
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Denise Whitebread Fanning
accidents
installation
lifeboat
maternal fear
Michigan
mortality
motherhood
performance art
sculpture
survival
survival gear
survival handbook
survival preparedness
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://kiaelena.format.com">https://kiaelena.format.com</a>
Topic
early parenthood
identity
accidents
adulthood
anxiety
art making
artist mother
motherhood
baby
birth
breastfeeding
building
caregiving
domestic object
everyday
exhaustion
daily routine
guild
feeding the family
humor
loss of self
Medium
photography
Artist Statement
Nothing can prepare you for parenthood is a phrase often shared with a knowing half-smile that belies the over-exhaustion in the wake of superiority (or is it pride?) . Replying with hollow grins, I secretly wanted to smack every single person who uttered that phrase. And yet, they were right. For the record, also totally justified in their self-satisfaction. It turns out that something as ubiquitous and ‘natural’ as growing, giving birth to, and caring for your progeny has a long adjustment period. It’s not just the changing diapers, the schedules, the meal times, the money, the dressing, the undressing, the endless battle for sleep. It’s not just the negotiation of how your time is spent, and how to best care for your family, your home, and your future. A year in, and I still don’t feel like I’ve joined the ranks of those we call “parents” or “mothers.” This series, made from moments stolen during the odd nap or distraction, is a reckoning and a tool. It’s an attempt to connect who I was with who I have become, now that my life is filled with the incessant though profound mundanity of clearing scraps of food from a high chair, finding matching socks, nursing, teaching, exposing, loving–performing the theater of life to an awed audience of one.
Location
The location of the interview
Providence
Rhode Island
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Kia Elena Petrovic Davis
Title
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Kia Elena Petrovic Davis
early parenthood
identity
photography
Providence
Rhode Island
USA