The Swing of the Lost Abuelitas

Based on an unexhibited artwork. ('Disdress: after Fragonard, after Shonibare' by Joanna Laromani) and in response to the bicentennial of the parliamentary abolition of British and North American slaveries. The Swing of the Lost Abuelitas is a sweatshop sublime of a twist on the theme of the Empire's new clothes as a first-time grandmother sews herself free of the perennial itch that haunts her back with extraordinary but unsettling results.