Status Symbols (2024)
paper, acrylic, and glass on canvas; 36” x 24”

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This piece depicts the status of all women globally over a fifty-year period (1970 to 2020). Average years of schooling more than doubled while average number of children born per woman was halved and is illustrated by the two figures symbolizing a mother and a child. Collectively, civil liberties of women rose for decades and then fell in the last one. The number of missing women – who would be alive in the absence of sex discrimination – is shown in the blue backdrop. A mosaic effect throughout the piece reflects that individual women have vastly different experiences than the aggregated data illustrate.