Kasey Jones
‘Working Mother Suit 1’
My creative pursuits are fueled by my need to connect with people. Through this human interaction, I become more connected to my immediate community and my global community. I use my artistic voice as a means for civic duty. My work generates dialogue that encourages my viewers to confront issues that are typically hard to talk about. I create both large-scale, participatory art projects as well as develop personal work that responds to pertinent social and environmental injustices that impact my life and the lives of others. The content of my work guides the medium, as the medium informs the message. As a result, this interdisciplinary approach has lead me to develop bodies of work in painting, photography, sculpture, living sculptures, audio, video, light and textiles. By having an open-ended view of what materials I can use, my art making process is constantly being pushed by the varying limitations each material may have. My current work reflects my voice and experiences of being a woman and mother in contemporary society. I have created bodies of work that examine topics such as breastfeeding, lack of paid maternity leave, menstruation, miscarriage, pregnancy loss and the realities of what it take to be a working mother in the 21st century. The goal of my work is to reclaim the voice of the mother in contemporary art and to also inform my audiences of the honest and raw experiences of being a woman and mother.
