Ascension

Hotel Sonesta Royale, Reception Area

Laser cut powder coated aluminum
20 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington DC

While thinking about forces of change, my initial idea for this public art installation started with the handiwork of women as a way to celebrate the skill and ingenuity of such craft. Eventually this led me to the collars worn by Ruth Bader Ginsberg, an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020.
To create this installation, I constructed forms out of metal based on the geometric pattern of one of those collars. Ginsberg was known to wear her collars as battle armor while also representing feminine energy  and a bold sense of style in a field dominated by men. The gold color represents the only color used by all US suffrage organizations, and described by the National Woman’s Party in the United States as being the color of light and life.