Description: Iron is an installation consisting of an ironing board with an iron attached to an automated arm. Each day one white dress shirt is placed on the ironing board. Throughout the course of the day as the iron heats the shirts texts is revealed, commenting on the working conditions of domestic workers and immigration issues relating to women from the 1900s until the present time. At the end of the eight hours the ironed shirt is removed form the ironing board, hung on the wall and a new shirt is placed on the ironing board so that the cycle continues for the duration of the exhibit.


Medium: silkscreen on fabric

Year Created: 2008