Constructions

Carole Kunstadt’s works reference artifacts, antique manuscripts and books, deconstructing paper and text and using it in metaphorical ways. Through the manipulation of these antique materials, history, memory and time merge in a hybrid form – revealing how language can become visual through re-interpretation, often invoking a metaphysical quality of contemplation and timelessness. Carole’s series entitled “PRESSING ON” reads like a meditation on how domestic labor—so often invisible, feminized, and undervalued—can be transformed into a site of strength, memory, and resistance. Texture defies the irons and instead functions as muscle-powered clothing-pressers,  the hardness of iron, the softness of fibers, and the wisdom of words, all are a testament to the labor of generations of women.