Allie Fischer

My thesis installation is an assemblage of works that catalogues the ever-changing, but sacred, relationships with the women responsible for raising me and teaching me about life. I appropriate objects that remind me of home. They stand as simplified representations of the women in my family. Combining images and domestic objects with hair (a symbolic artifact of lineage, family, and womanhood), I weave braids as a gesture of remembrance and attempt to solidify them as totemic, matriarchal objects of power. As life continues, memories fade and relationships change, hair will always be a reminder of my lineage.