Letters to the Army of Three and Letters to an Army of Three (Installation view)
Andrea Bowers. Letters to the Army of Three and Letters to an Army of Three (Installation view), 2005.
Description:
This installation shot from "Nothing is Neutral" is part of a body of work developed about an abortion rights activist group of three women located in the San Francisco Bay area of California who crusaded for legal abortions and women's health care rights prior to the passage of Roe v. Wade.
The video "Letters to An Army of Three" records thirty people reading letters written to the activists from people desperate to find abortions for themselves or loved ones prior to the legalization of abortion in America. All the letters read in the video were dated between 1965 to 1969.
An oversized book contains a much more comprehensive collection of these letters which are separated from each other with different sheets of decorative gift-wrapping paper. A second set of the book pages hang on the wall as a large poster installation called "Letters to the Army of Three Displayed".
Medium:
Installation
Tags:
activism, portraiture, painting genres, feminism, still life, Roe v. Wade, Rowena Gurner, Lana Clark Phelan, abortion rights, Patricia Maginnis, nonviolence, text
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