Carole Bolger / upper west side studio
I am obsessed with flying—movement through space. In part, it was a way to get someplace else. Away from a raging mother and alcoholic father, to another place, another world, another self. Places with an order and precision that I controlled. Art is my religion, complete with practices and icons. I am Mary Poppins. I am Minerva. I love acrobats and became one.
Selves / famous heroines
2022 - 2023
HEROINES—women who take action at personal risk. Mahsa Amani died by the Iranian Morality Police. I included protest slogans within the fabric. Emmeline Pankhurst organized the suffrage movement. The “RBG” initials on her hankie reference Ruth Bader Ginsberg. And the Ukranian Soldier, about whom there is much to learn.
Selves - we may know
2022 - 2023
SELVES. Most of these are narratives in costume, revealing personal qualities of being. Aspects. Reflections. Not always uniquely mine, but indelibly us. These costumes are personalities in themselves. The biography is in the construction. Words and phrases from my spiritual practice are hidden in the design. Facets and extremes are found in proximity, such as humor and sadness, serenity and shame. Glamour and evil.
Spiritual Icons
spiritual iconography speaks to the images, the history, the meaning of important symbols that through experience have shaped my perception of the world. I believe we all have these object symbols and to understand them enriches or self knowledge and well being.
Singles black & white
