213 pages of Dobbs Vs. Jackson Women’s Health decision on paper cordage;
20x18x20″

“There is a performative quality embedded in this process. A silent choreography of fingers, wrists, shoulders—the whole body contributing to a rhythm. It recalls the physical, historical act of using our hands to weave a basket or a piece of cloth: a gesture repeated across centuries, continents, and civilizations. The Pile At Her feet harnesses these movements using the restrictive and life threatening outcomes of the Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health decision by weaving the ripped up document into traditional cordage.”

ARTIST BIO: Erica Fitzgerald is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice follows linear relationships between feminine labor, earth, and familial traditions through the lens of material change. She earned her MFA in New Media at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and her BFA in sculpture with a minor in art history from the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in Ireland, and Iceland. She currently lives and works in Cincinnati.