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My Invisible Women came about from my continuing investigation into the invisibility of woman's work. For this series, I use full page adds I find in the New York Times. I block out most of the photograph and text through a process of burnishing the page with a 9B graphite pencil, leaving, untouched, the accouterments women wear. Often, I weave my graphite through patterns in the clothing, imbuing them with an ethereal, disembodied quality. The resulting page looks like graphite-leaf with the untouched images embossed on the surface. The women are rendered invisible, and the work of covering them mimics the repetitive and often unseen efforts of household tasks.

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