life:
A welder at a boat-and-sub-building yard adjusts her goggles before resuming work, October, 1943. By 1945, women comprised well over a third of the civilian labor force (in 1940, it was closer to a quarter) and millions of those jobs were filled in factories: building bombers, manufacturing munitions, welding, drilling and riveting for the war effort.
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Papaw (my grandpa) sweeping his sidewalk to escape the people overrunning his house.
” I came out here to get some peace and you come out here poppin’ that thing off every whichaway!”
Yayoi Kusama in her installation Fireflies on the Water (2002) two weeks ago. The room is currently on view at the Whitney as part of Kusama’s retrospective.
Photograph by Jason Schmidt, whose artist portraits are worth spending some time with.
Artist Yuko Nasu (Man Oil / B / Yuko Nasu)
Yuko Nasu was born in Hiroshima, Japan. She studied visual design in Kyoto and Fine Art in London. She lives and works in London.
