Wedding Day is a body of work that centers on an archive of my grandmother’s wedding day in 1960, considering her position as a bride at nineteen and the expectations that shaped a young woman’s life during that time. Within the adorned photographs, a similarity emerges between an image from her first communion and one from her wedding day, a white dress, ceremony, and veils repeating across both moments. 7,500 push pins surround her photographs, while frames containing more frame than photograph confine her within a culture of glamour and expectation, all rendered in silver. The embellishments and wallpaper throughout the work bring the domestic space of the home into the installation. When reprinting photographs from the archive onto the veil, the images take on a spectral quality, appearing not fully tangible.
39"H × 60" W
Inkjet prints, silver frames
