Christmas Collapsing Apron

Christmas Collapsing Apron 1983-4

56cm. X 76.5cm. 22in. X 30in.
BFK Rives
Monoprint, 3variations
Photo Credit Bernard Clark

Exhibitions
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa Ontario,1985, travelled to Mount St. Vincent University, Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia 1986
Kingston Public Library, Kingston, Ontario.1987

Collections
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. Gift of Mary E. Rawlyk.

Notes
This apron was arranged in red ink on an arborite surface and passed through the etching press. The dark background was added later from an inked card, placed over a block out stencil for the image, and printed through the etching press.

This image represents Christmas overload. Housewife/mothers add the Christmas preparations to an already full family agenda. Various degrees of overload and collapse are the result. The economy benefits from her Christmas spending, but the government takes the economic benefits of her effort for granted and exploits her labour.