I am really impressed with the concept of The BraBall. “The surprising size of the BraBall (now over half its goal, the height of the average American woman – five feet, four inches tall), the overwhelming quantity of bras, and the incredible density of the piece catches people off guard and hopefully challenges their assumptions about women’s bodies. Our bodies are solid and strong like the sculpture, not wispy and frail like the bras it’s made of.” If you have any bras with the metal hook & eye type of closure, why not donate them? I am going to add it to my list of things to clean out as I work on decluttering my house. It is important to read the “Herstory” page on the site and learn even more of the history of this project.
“Using bras as an art medium (something I’ve been doing for several years now) is a way of disrupting some of the longstanding taboos surrounding them. Interweaving stained nursing bras with provocative, augmentation bras somehow balances the distorted images of women’s bodies. It reconciles the narrow stereotypes of virgin and whore and fills in the true definitions of women that are missing in between. We’re old and young, tall and short, thin and plump, rich and poor, straight and gay, famous and anonymous, and every racial background imaginable. The BraBall includes artists’ bras, postal workers’ bras, lawyers’ bras, mothers’ bras, secretaries’ bras, students’ bras, and even exotic dancers’ bras. The bras, made of satin, silk, cotton, or nylon, run the full color spectrum and range of print designs: floral, polka dot, even cartoon characters or signs of the zodiac.”