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Ashley MacLure
Kelly Garabadian
Cycle Breakers
mixed media assemblage: embroidery, found objects, fabric, ink
30″ x 60″
2024
Cycle Breakers: It’s been said that generational trauma continues until someone is ready to heal it. Using discarded and broken materials, we are repairing, stitching, rebuilding in order to create a peaceful space for our daughters to thrive. We hold them sacred and safe from the burden of carrying a legacy of pain with them. We will heal it for them. We will hold it from them. We will break the cycle.
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Ashley MacLure
Daddy Likes Your Hair Long
mixed media: collage, drawing, Play-Doh, acrylic, ink
2’x2′
2022
I was not allowed to cut my hair. “Daddy and Papa like long hair”, my mother said. I learned to please everyone around me. I never learned to say no; not in high school, not in college. My body does not exist for others. My hair is mine. My body is mine. What messages are we sending to our children through seemingly benign statements? I was more than the length of my hair.
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Ashley MacLure
Bone and Paper
Inspired by: Mixteca-Puebla Artist, Tripod Bowl Unknown Artist, English Teapot
stoneware, glaze
12 ” x 12 ” (both bowls)
2022
Bone and Paper My mother’s “safe foods” were meat and chocolate ice cream. It wasn’t until I got older that I heard her vomiting at night in her bedroom. She used newspaper delivery bags– the long skinny ones that hold papers– then tied them in a knot and left them beside her bed filled with whatever she ate that day. I don’t remember the meals, or my mom’s weight, but the feeling of helplessness. Her bones, and the paper bags. These tea bowls are sharp, jagged like bones, inky like newspaper. My mealtime ritual.
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