Cancer from the Contemplating My Internal Organs series
© Pinky/MM Bass
Colored embroidery pierces through a nude female figure in Bass's Cancer from the series Contemplating My Internal Organs. The threads form a skeleton on the lower half while a crab weighs upon the figure's chest–a play upon the astrological sign Cancer and a reference to the ravages of the disease. The body depicted in the image, captured with a pinhole camera, is that of the artist, who began integrating needlework into her pinhole photography as a healing toll following her sister's diagnosis with cancer. The composition assists the artist as well as the viewer in confronting aging, death, and life's balance of joy and sorrow. Bass is known for her use of pinhole photography, a lensless process wherein light passes through a hole onto a prepared surface.
Exhibition Title: Asheville Art Museum: An Introduction to the Collection
Label Date: 2021
Type: Object Entry
Written by: Hilary Schroeder
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