1994 TAKE A SEAT MISS N. Le Mans bucket car seat with adjustable head rest that splits the brain from the body. Embroidered by the artist with text from a typing manual. First exhibited at Susan Whitney Gallery, Regina, in the group exhibition, AUTO BODY PARTS. Collection of the Norman MacKenzie Gallery and exhibited in group shows including their CHASING AMNESIA May, 2005 curated by Helen Marzolf.


Detail. TAKE A SEAT MISS N.

From a 19th Century manual on hygiene.

(A detail from my mixed media CIPHERS Drawings.)


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TAKE A SEAT MISS N. continued to explore the issue of women as currency articulated in many instructional manuals, while at the same time apportioning the authority of the brain from a gendered perspective. (e.g. "example of a brain message" from a vintage manual that I have incorporated in my work.) TAKE A SEAT MISS N. explores representations of the brain. This mind/body split, is underscored by the gap in the adjustable head rest that separates the head from the body on the car seat.