The lint studies are stitched ritual performances over starched and ironed dryer lint and text taken from Good Housekeeping’s Guide for Young Homemakers, copyrighted in 1966. My upbringing centered on a Calvinist, protestant work ethic, emerging out of historical Dutch exiguity; deeds were valued as iconography in worship and service in daily life. The full collective artwork includes 40 performative acts, alluding to the biblical motif of 40 days of trials or tests, presenting a philosophically enlightened perception of integrated gender egalitarianism. (selected images from series).
