Shades of Empowerment:
Voiced Aired on the Line

The configuration depicted in these videos and photos is part of the documentation from its first rendition installed at Emerson College in the Huret Spector gallery in Boston, Massachusetts in April 2019.

Shades of Empowerment: Voices Aired on the Line is a multimedia art installation dealing with the theme of identity. Thirteen millennial women share their thoughts and personal narratives as their corresponding shadows projected onto domestic fabrics hung on clotheslines.

The focal point of the piece is the interwoven narrative provided by the women’s responses to five specific questions:

What are some of the challenges you face day to day?

What are some of your fears and anxieties that might keep you awake at night?

What vexes or frustrates you?

What are things that inspire you or bring you happiness?

What are your hopes and dreams?

These prompts serve as a sounding board for discussion These women’s answers offer a spectrum of both unique reflection and common connecting threads woven throughout their answers. By rendering their appearance as silhouettes, the portraits of the subjects are more referential and instead place emphasis on their voices.