step into her shoes

step into her shoes
Kristine Mays, artist
Completed in 2006
Medium: wire
43 in. L x 28 in. W, head wrap – 10 in. x 10 in.

Created to celebrate women
who have survived genocide,
this sculpture’s invisible occupant
represents the many faces
of Rwandan women
living,
breathing
and surviving
in the midst of the circumstances
that bind them.

Fluid shapes, resulting in a celebration of human form is revealed as thousands of individual pieces of wire are bound together by Kristine Mays, unveiling a Rwandan woman full of strength and grace.

This piece will be a part of Speaking the Unspeakable, a traveling multi-media exhibition designed to give voice to women survivors of the rapes and massacres in Rwanda in 1994. For more about the event, see the post below...

see more wire dresses:
abundance
all that jazz
couture amore
deliciously complicated
everyday elegance
flirt
lucy ricardo
phenomenal woman
saturday night dancing
shall we dance
splendor in the grass

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