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2024
Media: Screen Print on Fabric
10 ft x 30 yards
Smith’s very first large-scale installation piece “The Emotional Veil”, maps her emotion over the course of 72 days. Each day Smith recorded the main emotion she experienced to add to her emotion collection, what you see here is this record, a color for each feeling and a window into her mental health. Smith has collected data for over a year and is still collecting, making this piece an ongoing project. Smith lifts the veil and highlights the unseen, through this display of vulnerable data, she destigmatizes mental health and emphasizes that ups and downs are a normal part of life.
Unspoken Rules
2025
Embroidery hoops, embroidery thread
6” x 6” each
Unspoken Rules highlights the long history of etiquette rules and the many expectations placed on women. To be a respected member of society it was—and still is—assumed that these rules be adopted into everyday life. Even if they may seem outdated, all 110 of these etiquette rules are real, some of which continue to exist today. These extremely sexist and misogynistic expectations foster a culture where double standards are accepted and normalized. The sad truth is this is only a fraction of the unspoken rules that women have been enslaved to for centuries. This project was made collaborative when Smith began hosting workshops and invited members of her society to learn to embroider, a skill historically analogous to a woman’s status. The rules before you serve to raise awareness, and encourage discussion of the history of yet another tool used to pressure women into conformity.
