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If you create or own art
concerning menstruation or menopause
and are interested in showing it on
thesepages (it's free!), contact MUM
Marie Claire magazine
(Italian edition) featured several
of the above artists in an article about
this
museum and menstruation in 2003. The
newspaper Corriere della Sera (Io Donna
magazine) (Milan, Italy) and the magazine
Dishy (Turkey) showed some of
the artists in 2005 in articles about this
museum.
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The Art of Menstruation at the Museum of
Menstruation and Women's Health
"Mary Mary"
2000, Mixed media assemblage, 50 cm diameter
Artist: P. J. Speakman,
B.A.(Hons) Art &Design, P.G.C.E.
University of Reading, Hampshire, U.K.
Marie Claire
magazine (Italian edition) featured
this art work and several other MUM
artists in an article
about this museum and menstruation in
2003.
Ms. Speakman writes,
Using pristine, scented
sanitary towels ("for light flow
days"), cotton buds, tampons,
pills and mirrors, the heirloom
image of Our Lady is framed in a
glorious corona of feminine
essentials. Hygiene and virtue
are two of the issues in this
piece. White and blue of
sanitary wear (ever seen red
stuff in a feminine hygiene
commercial?) are also the
colours associated with the
Virgin Mary. The only red in the
image is the ink of the Elvis
lyrics written on each towel.
"Hunk of Love" lusting after
a "little mamma" who is being
"a stinge" with her love.
Tribute to Woman as a
"beehive, filled with honey to
the top." Playing hard to get
and being depicted as a
commodity - a consumable,
almost. But he "ain't greedy,
baby"; all he wants is all
she's got!
Mary is an icon of love but
not as a real woman - she can't
bleed. She can only weep her
eternal sorrow, and is adored
for it. That's not asking much,
is it?
Commissions undertaken.
Contact:
volere.volare@virgin.net
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artist: Alexandra
Steiner
See all the
artists in the links in
the left-hand
column.
If you create or own art
concerning menstruation or
menopause and
are interested in showing it on
thesepages (it's free!), contact
MUM
See
also
Bea Nettles' art The
Moonsisters
© 2001-2004 Harry
Finley. It is illegal to reproduce
or distribute
work on this Web site in any
manner or medium without written
permission
of the author. Please report
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