Buckle Up (2025) is a one-of-one sculpture built from nearly a decade of The New York Times newsprint dating 2016-2025, chronicling the evolving narratives surrounding women’s lives, rights, and representation. Headlines range from “Not Bad for a Woman” and “Let’s Talk About My Abortion and Yours” to “Access to Contraception Is Ending for 50 Million” and “Mothers Are Dying: A Stress Test for the U.S.” Interwoven are cultural snapshots—supermodels, high heels, friendships, motherhood, resilience, and rebellion - revealing a complex, layered portrait of women’s experiences across time.
Taking the form of a pregnant mannequin, the work is both body and archive, carrying the weight of political battles, cultural shifts, and personal triumphs. As the material yellows and its language ages, the piece transforms physically and conceptually, becoming a living clock where meaning changes not only with history but also with each viewer’s perspective.
Spanning #MeToo, reproductive rights, and the everyday lives of women, Buckle Up stands as a vessel of memory, struggle, and endurance - a timeline of what it has meant, and continues to mean, to live as a woman in this era.
