Decoys and Mimics at The Institute Library - Summer Show

This is a wonderful show that's been on display since mid-July.  I had a chance to see it at the end of the summer, and oh, what fun!!!

I've been working on my entry for this show for a few years, on and off, and I am so glad that it has finally found a home in this exhibit.

Here is my Artist's Statement for this work:

Humans are the only animals with permanent breasts.

[Breast. (2022, June 21). Wikipedia. Retrieved July 6, 2022 from https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast]

 

There is an endless fascination with the human breast.  We police them, sexualize them, protect them, remove them, add them, enlarge them, reduce them, maximize them, minimize them, decorate them, flaunt them, fetishize them.    

In this work, which is ongoing, I create and embellish the individual breast as facsimile.  The pigmented areola of each breast is seed-stitched, mimicking an inverted nipple that is evolving in function and form.  Each breast, as artifice, can be added to or subtracted from, welcomed or unwelcomed, wanted or unwanted, permanent or impermanent.

The totality is an homage to the human breast and the power it wields over our sense of self in all its various forms, through the personal process of becoming.

Marsha Borden

July 6, 2022

Here are some photos from my summer visit:

 

AND you can read a wonderful review of the show (Thank you, Lucy Gellman!) in The Arts Paper HERE.

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