Community Art Base - 2024
I don’t like country music, but I love Dolly. I didn’t understand Dolly growing up, I can’t quite articulate why, but I never remember liking her music as a kid. As an adult, I always get excited when a Dolly song comes on. I watch a lot of documentaries, so I say this a lot, I really learned to love Dolly after watching some of her documentaries and also watching 9 to 5. In one of Dolly’s documentaries, Jane Fonda describes Dolly as the consummate professional. She is always on, and she is always on pointe. Yellow bras are hard to come by. I had Dolly drawn out on a piano board for a few months, waiting for the right yellow bra to come along. When the bra did come along, I had to refocus and find the ambition to take on this icon. When this mug with a Dolly quote came along, I knew it was time to get this piece going. She came out pretty much how I had envisioned her, and was proud how she turned out. I typically post my brart in a few different upcycling and textile Facebook groups. I normally get a variety of positive comments on brart for a few days and then the internet generates more content and we all move on. When I posted Dolly, I had never read such a range of responses to a subject of brart. I had people saying this didn’t look like Dolly at all, that I aged her terribly, and a whole slew of general thoughts about Dolly positive and negative. I try not to take criticism personally, so I tried to sit back and wonder why is this piece of brart was getting such a wide range of criticism and negative commentary. At first I was questioning how good the piece was and if I had some how missed the focus of the piece. But then I realized, people weren’t commenting on my art, they were commenting with the emotions they already had tied to Dolly, about Dolly. I thought that this was an interesting realization. Dolly is such a level of recognition, that having a thought or opinion about Dolly is almost a universal American experience. Few people can so effortless work so hard and make it look easy to be as recognizable as Dolly.
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AuthorMinnesota native, Sadie started making brart (bra-art) in 2019. Archives
February 2024
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