Woven is an exploration of gender representation as seen in glossy fashion magazines. These magazines attract the viewer's gaze, promoting the consumption of a female model. I found this high-fashion image of an attractive woman lounging, wearing a fluorescent yet burnt orange crocheted bucket hat. The hat seemed in opposition to the come-hither look of the model, holding daisies at the edge of her lips as she reclined into the dated couch. I covered her being with the crochet fibers, her form swallowed up by the fibers, unable to be seen.

Olivia Baldacci (she/they) is a mixed-media artist based in New York City. She is interested in exploring how media helps form our cultural norms, specifically our conceptions of identity in her work. Collage is her ideal format for this exploration as it utilizes real-world imagery that is intended to construct and reinforce norms. It allows her to interrogate these notions through the physical stripping and reshaping of images. Their work is intended to make some meaning from a constant influx of images and ideally help others deconstruct these seemingly mundane images, which wield power over our understanding of the world.