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4/28/2014

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Betsy Edwards

4/28/2014 08:28:56 am

I'm an underemployed 61-year-old graphic designer, grateful for the work I have, but mostly grateful for my friends and family, and at the risk of seeming shallow - grateful for TV (I live alone and it's a comfort, really). My fondest wish is to achieve some form of nobility in my life.

WEARING MY AGE

I have received a grant from the Jerome Foundation to work on a project that I have called "Wearing My Age."

The premises that I am working with are that our clothes communicate and they communicate somewhat differently depending on age and gender. You might think of it as "fashion as self-publishing."

The key area I am curious about surrounds the uniforms that women wear in the work place. Indeed, I will be making a uniform body of work, comprised of near identical 3 piece work outfits comprised of: a jacket, a dress, a petticoat.

Each piece represents of body of language/meaning which I will make manifest with digitized machine embroidery typography and design.

The Jacket represents the public self: what you are trying to say, how you wish to be identified, how you want to feel in the market place.

The Dress represents a more personal statement: this is closer to the real me, Within the constraints of the market place I can be creative here, This is the part of me I am generally willing to reveal

The Petticoat represents the secret self: Here lies the true language of self, these are the secrets I do not share, This is what I really think about myself, This is how I feel deep down.