'I am becoming' a play on words - 'I am becoming' as in beautiful and referring to the obsession of one's appearance in the culture and I am becoming as in I am in the process of transforming beyond these false selves to my truth The truth of being beautiful in all forms of evolution.
The incomplete dress of the elaborate fashion symbolizes the breaking away from the external. The head basket symbol is many layered. The basket as women's work (burden) but such an essential vessel often made into beautiful and expressive art forms. And now her basket catches all the gifts the universe has to offer.
17" cloth figure silk - hand fabricated basket with spheres of nickel - copper - red brass - sterling - metalic silk roses on skirt