Using sidewalk chalk and children’s play mats as stencils, I installed a subversive message about gendered family roles in a popular playground location (the wading pool at Grey’s Park in Vancouver). Adapted from this quote in Rachel Yoder’s book, Nightbitch (used with permission),
“Her sense that society, adulthood, marriage, motherhood, all these things, were somehow masterfully designed to put a woman in her place and keep her there—this idea had begun to weigh on her.”
In the video below, I document the labour involved in creating the Chalk piece.
