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Mirrors
A Sensible Woman
Is marriage a merger, or an acquisition?
Women are more independent than ever, yet our independence is ever-more complicated.
Because the vectors of marriage and financial
independence remain at odds with each other.
This work cites the American Declaration of
Independence in its original font styling, interspersed with emails from a bank for opening a corporate account.
The Revolutionary war propoganda poster, “Join or Die,” is a representation of how society coerces us into marriage as an inevitable, major investment of our life force.
The Sensible Woman grasps at her personal freedom through opening a corporate bank account for her LLC. and inverts the “We” of “We the people” into a “Me.”
So, “In order to form a more perfect union,” women must perch on the precarious balance between the professional and the personal, waving their own flag of self-sufficiency.
Women are more independent than ever, yet our independence is ever-more complicated.
Because the vectors of marriage and financial
independence remain at odds with each other.
This work cites the American Declaration of
Independence in its original font styling, interspersed with emails from a bank for opening a corporate account.
The Revolutionary war propoganda poster, “Join or Die,” is a representation of how society coerces us into marriage as an inevitable, major investment of our life force.
The Sensible Woman grasps at her personal freedom through opening a corporate bank account for her LLC. and inverts the “We” of “We the people” into a “Me.”
So, “In order to form a more perfect union,” women must perch on the precarious balance between the professional and the personal, waving their own flag of self-sufficiency.
A Leading Woman
What does it take to be a leader?
You could ask the ultimate executive, one carrying the weight of responsibility 24/7, keeping it all together under the weight of the world’s expectations- any mother.
She catches a glimpse of her half-dressed self in the mirror, between bathtime and bedtime, before her third shift bouncing between her computer and tomorrow’s lunches.
Between the belongings askew on her closet shelves and the crook of her elbow holding her child, she looks to familiar leadership refrains from the corporate world.
But until you’ve changed a diaper, you haven’t experienced ‘tactical proficiency,’ and until you’ve lost the baby weight, you haven’t been ‘cool under pressure.’
This is what a leader looks like, messy bun and all.
You could ask the ultimate executive, one carrying the weight of responsibility 24/7, keeping it all together under the weight of the world’s expectations- any mother.
She catches a glimpse of her half-dressed self in the mirror, between bathtime and bedtime, before her third shift bouncing between her computer and tomorrow’s lunches.
Between the belongings askew on her closet shelves and the crook of her elbow holding her child, she looks to familiar leadership refrains from the corporate world.
But until you’ve changed a diaper, you haven’t experienced ‘tactical proficiency,’ and until you’ve lost the baby weight, you haven’t been ‘cool under pressure.’
This is what a leader looks like, messy bun and all.
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