The Menses Tapes
The Menses Tapes (Come Play With Me) | 2016
Digital Print | 84 cm x 76 cm (33" x 30"")
Digital Print | 84 cm x 76 cm (33" x 30"")
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The 'crises' of a woman's life have been much descanted upon by men medical writers [and] perhaps the most artificially created has been her 'change' *
*Marie Stopes, Change of Life in Men and Women The Menses Tapes (Come Play With Me) is a work in poster format that takes the letters from the word menopause as a starting point. Language is limited to the letters drawing comparison to the limitations imposed upon women. Women's bodies have been and still are; designated dangerous, controlled by men and our natural rhythms pathologized.
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The washed out poem on the wall in frame [12] is composed solely from partial anagrams of the letters on the Menses Tapes (Menopause)
Menses Meme
Spasms, seep, pus, nausea, mess, ass monsoons, naps
Pompous men muse, amuse, use, amasse, assume, suppose
Papas spume menses memes
Apemen pen enema opuses, mean puns, espouse nonsense
Mamas, mommas, nuns, one same saneness
Name names
Summon sense
Use sense
OPPOSE
Pompous men muse, amuse, use, amasse, assume, suppose
Papas spume menses memes
Apemen pen enema opuses, mean puns, espouse nonsense
Mamas, mommas, nuns, one same saneness
Name names
Summon sense
Use sense
OPPOSE