Security Blanket

Security Blanket, 2009

men's blazers, baby blanket

Here is my entry for the String Theory exhibit at UNCC last month. This is a project from our Fibers I class I took last semester. It was a deconstruction/reconstruction project, where we has to take a ready made garment and take it apart and make something new with it. I took three men's blazers and a baby blanket and combined these two symbols to make a statement.

Here is my statement:

Imagine a little girl sitting on the floor watching her parents argue in their bedroom. She is watching as her father snatches some of his clothes out of the closet and throw them into a suitcase. He leaves without saying anything to the little girl. Years pass and she does not hear from him. So, she takes a few of the blazers he left behind and her precious baby blanket, sew them together to make her own blanket of security. When she wears it, it reminds her of the fatherly embrace that he never gave her before he left. It reminds her of how she used to feel so safe, warm and protected in his arms. She will never fell that way again.