Art – Carrying Stone Art Exhibit

Honored to be the subject of this beautiful project!

For Neither Love Nor Money: Women’s Invisible Labor, a touring exhibition from artist Sawyer Rose and The Carrying Stones Project, shines a light on the systemic and pervasive inequalities that working women face, including the physical, emotional, and practical effects of these disproportionate labor loads. The artworks in this show portray the deeply personal work stories of a diverse group of women and are accompanied by the data that tells a bigger story. The women profiled are a mix of ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, occupations, and socio-economic statuses.

Rose uses a unique combination of art and science to communicate her findings about women’s work. Her large-scale installation sculptures in For Neither Love Nor Money are built using real-life work data collected from female-identifying workers from all walks of life and from across the U.S. Participants record their work hours, paid and unpaid. Then, Rose translates each subject’s hours into a data visualization sculpture that helps viewers better understand the vast number of hours each woman logs at her paid job and at her unpaid home or volunteer job.

In the sculpture of her hours, heavy gold and black forms represent America’s paid labor hours and less-weighty silver and black forms represent her unpaid labor hours. Spaces in the sequence represent hours when America was not working, either at her job, her nonprofit, or at home.

For more information about this amazing art, check out the website. http://www.carrying-stones.com/america