11/29/2005: Dollhouses of vacuum cleaner dust

Undertoad · 11-29-2005, 09:47 AM

via Boing Boing. What was I saying yesterday about art of the commoner? Here's another example, from another direction. Artist Maria A. Lopez creates dust houses, motivated by her time cleaning houses while she studied art. As put so well by Art MoCo, an online contemporary art magazine:

When Colombian Maria Adelaida Lopez moved to Philadelphia do a Master’s degree in art, she cleaned houses to help support herself, as she says, the way many other Marias do. Her series of Dust Houses are toy doll houses covered over in vacuum cleaner lint, representing the themes of domesticity and the other, the ideas of cleaning up after oneself and putting one’s house in order. Now an artist and educator in Miami, Lopez no longer cleans for others, but has filled vacuum cleaner bags given to her.

Nothing to sneeze at.

11-29-2005, 09:47 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	11/29/2005: Dollhouses of vacuum cleaner dust via Boing Boing. What was I saying yesterday about art of the commoner? Here's another example, from another direction. Artist Maria A. Lopez creates dust houses, motivated by her time cleaning houses while she studied art. As put so well by Art MoCo, an online contemporary art magazine: When Colombian Maria Adelaida Lopez moved to Philadelphia do a Master’s degree in art, she cleaned houses to help support herself, as she says, the way many other Marias do. Her series of Dust Houses are toy doll houses covered over in vacuum cleaner lint, representing the themes of domesticity and the other, the ideas of cleaning up after oneself and putting one’s house in order. Now an artist and educator in Miami, Lopez no longer cleans for others, but has filled vacuum cleaner bags given to her. Nothing to sneeze at.

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