I have been wanting to make a portrait of RBG since I finished my portrait of Michelle Obama. I imagine their portraits sitting in my living room together discussing the state of the world. I have received a lot of black bras, so I was waiting for the perfect bra to be her dissent collar. I think it is important to wait for the right bra to come along, because purchasing a bra would defeat the purpose of keeping bras out of the landfill.
She is made entirely out of bras except her glasses and earing. Her earrings are actually buttons I gathered in a different trash saving project. For my set design of These Shining Lives, I gathered buttons and broaches from the community, attached and hung them all around the set to give the set glimmering feeling. I have a bucket of buttons left over from that project, so I pull from it for various projects. I did have a friend with a 3D printer create her glasses, because I thought the proportion needed to be accurate. I made her head about 1.5 times the size of a normal head, so I couldn't use a regular pair of glasses. There are a few pictures in my process video about finding just the right pair of glasses. Below is a link to a short video on my process. Ruth Brart Ginsburg - YouTube These are some of my favorite RBG Quotes; "Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you." "I don't say women's rights - I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizen stature of mean and women."
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AuthorMinnesota native, Sadie started making brart (bra-art) in 2019. Archives
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