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• Welcome to Womansculpture, a ceramic studio devoted to an

  artistic vision of women and men in an egalitarian world.

• Self Portrait with China Chow:

   

  Based on dress by Yves Saint Laurent from the book
  Wise Women by Joyce Tenneson

  

  Terra Cotta

  14” H x 6” W x 3" D

  2012

  
  

• About the Piece

  There is a beautiful photograph in Joyce Tenneson’s book Wise Women of China Chow and her mother. China is wearing a dress by Yves Saint Laurent that reveals the form of her body including her nipples and naval. The dress is exquisite and I wish I had one that was custom made for me. However, as a mastectomy survivor my dress would challenge our ideas of beauty, sexuality and wholeness.

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