Aly Kangleon
Collaborative Survival, 2022
10.6 x 10.6 x 5 inches
Stoneware
"Collaborative Survival ponders the quiet, intricate ways women connect with each other, and how bonds of collaboration and care become driving and yet inconspicuous forces that sustain communities. Borrowing imagery from often overlooked mycorrhizal networks whose mutual symbiotic associations between fungi and plants enable forests to persevere, women’s domestic and emotional labor are also held invisible in society, even though our ability to persist and flourish is dependent upon this labor. It also reminds us that women’s rights are deeply entangled and one with basic human rights to food, shelter, healthcare, education, livable wages, the right to not be discriminated against, and the right to be free from violence and abuse. When we empower women, our communities are propelled forward with them."
