Anna Cowley Ford

Anna Cowley Ford

  • Spring Shop
    • Weekly Calendar / Tracker Journal
    • Mini Plates
    • Bust Vessel - Small
    • Bust Vessels - Medium
    • Bust Vessels - Large
    • Bust Planters - Small
    • Bust Planters - Medium
    • Bust Planters - Large
    • 2022 Wall Calendar
    • 2017 Wall Calendar
    • Platters
  • Projects
    • Depression
    • The Pain Away Clinic (2018-2019)
    • Suet Head Goes to the Pasture (2022)
    • Hamburger Head (2021)
    • Bread Head (2021)
    • Bread Head Goes to the Greenspace (2021)
    • Commodify Me (2022)
    • Busts (2012-2022)
    • Bust Planters
    • Bust Vessels
    • Postcards
    • Healthcare Aesthetic, 2022 (2021)
    • Medical Self Portraits, 2017 (2021)
    • Coccyx Cushion (2022)
    • Re/cliner (2021)
    • [this is meaningful to me know]: Please take one if you would like to. Perfect for refrigerators, altars, and strangers! (2021)
    • The Wanderer (2021)
    • Endometriosis (2021)
    • Grinding (2021)
    • Crushing (2020)
    • Tree of Death (2020)
    • Self Portrait (2020)
    • Fatigue Reclining (2020)
    • Triggeres: Prodrome, Migraine, Postdrome: Time To Go [insert obligation] (2020)
    • Fatigue (2020)
    • Prodrin Side Effects / Rebound Headache Cycle (2018)
    • 2008-2018 (2018)
    • Dilemma: A Decade of Chronic Pain VIDEO (2018)
    • Weekly Calendar/Journal (2017)
    • Chronic Pain Pathway (2017)
    • Chronic Pain Fortune Machine (2016)
    • Triggers/Aftermath (2015)
    • Cylinder Trees
      • Cylinder Tree, Carbon, Texas
      • Cylinder Tree, The Eastland Hotel, Texas
      • Cylinder Tree, Dallas, Texas
      • Cylinder Trees, Texas
      • Cylinder Trees, Iowa
    • Medication as Drinking Vessels (2015)
    • Migraine Pathway (2012)
    • One Week's Medication
    • October 27, 2010
    • November 2008
  • Exhibitions
    • Momentary Certainties, Eagan Art House
    • 2022 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
    • Under Skin: Ceramic Studies of Chronic Migraine, Grinnell Area Arts Council
    • West End Collectif Art Show, Art Terrarium
    • Pain Away Clinic, OL Guild
    • Dilemma: A Decade Of Chronic Pain, Love Oak Pharmacy
    • The Dragon That Never Sleeps: Living With Chronic Migraines, The Small Gallery, Dallas
    • The Dragon That Never Sleeps: Living With Chronic Migraines, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
    • January 27-28, 2011
  • Functional Ware
    • Plates and Platters, 2022
    • Yunomis, 2017
    • Mugs, 2017
    • Bowls, 2017
    • McMichael Commission, 2014
    • Ghadiri Commission, 2014
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Depression
2022
Silk chiffon, hair

For the past 5 years, I have sewn life-size fabric figures conveying various sensory experiences such as Endometriosis, Depression, and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. The figures embody the sensations of these conditions. Deflated, elongated arms and legs, excessive body hair, and no head are consistent features in this series. Tailoring around the neck and back reference clothing, which suggests that these fabric skins are wearable, can be put on, and hinder the wearer. Previous iterations of this series were constructed using bed sheets stained with skin oil from extensive use or silk chiffon with my head hair knotted onto the figure for its body hair.