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Titled "Catching the Drift", the women's room is
submerged in a band of translucent glass panels, lapping with
painted and etched waves. The sinks are cobalt - in
one a fishing net appears to be unravelled down the drain;
another has a fishook and lure splayed across the bottom.
Driscoll has transposed images of women from the museum's
collection onto glass. The largest two - a primitive
portrait of a New England dowager and Corot's "Maid of
Gascony" - face off across the space.
From "The Art of Toiletry" by Katherine Bowers,
Women's Wear Daily, 4/22/2003
Driscoll's installation for the women's room.. is swathed
in a rich cobalt blue that makes you feel as if you're floating
in a warm bath. 'Water is integral to bathrooms,' Driscoll
said, 'but nobody ever thinks about it, where it comes from
and where it goes, so I wanted to give a sense of being in
a watery world beyond the walls.'
She designed a horizontal band of glass panels.. on which
are sandblasted original drawings of underwater sea life.
Around the room - on the walls, in the sinks, in the toilets
- are painted images of fishing nets, hook, and various flora
and fauna relating to the sea. She incorporated four
images of women that she culled from the museum's collection,
including a ship's figurehead and the Augustus Saint-Gaudens
portrait Diana of the Tower. The idea, Driscoll
says, was to play with the concept of 'private space, public
art, of giving the sense of being alone while not being alone.'
From "Flush with Art" by John MacMillan, Smith
Alumnae Quarterly, Spring 2003
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