I Stand Before You, Ironing

A Jewish woman bends over her ironing board with deep concentration and constant back and forth motion. She is busy working while the men are at schul praying. Her labor becomes like davening and she knows there must be a ten commandments for women. She continues the marks of her labor by burning and staining her truth in to the ironing boards.

I Stand Before You, Ironing
© Beth Grossman 1994
56" x 29"
Mixed media on ironing boards