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Highly Sprung, 1999                                                                                                           
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12,500 clothes pegs

I made this dress out of the springs found inside clothes pegs as a reference to the tradition of laundry being 'woman's work'. 12,500 clothes pegs were used in the construction, all of which had to be broken and the springs linked together. The process took hours, was monotonously repetitive and hard on the hands, much like doing the laundry. The wood is a reminder of the waste produced by the over consumption of cleaning products.