"Make Yourself Useful" uses utilitarian references of construction and carpentry to critique the woman's role as support structure, argue against gendered disciplines, and defunctunalizes the object as a gesture of protest. The sculpture consists of 2 2x4 lumber sawhorses, standard table height. The lumber of one sawhorse was drilled with 1/4" holes until it reached a point of near disintegration. The second sawhorse was nailed into until neither the lumber nor the sawhorse structure itself was able to support any kind of weight or platform.
2014
