Stephanie Lerma

She Kept Her Head and Her Jewelry: Anne of Cleves (2017) hand-made steel chain mail, pate de verre cast glass, pearls 16 x 10 x 2 in. I: make accumulate repeat transform tell. It is: constant urgent unavoidable abundant survival purposeful work. I feel: fear panic pain release surrender joy. Much of the work I am most compelled to create is specific to issues of gender and class and the ways that text, visual symbols and narrative become the skin(s) we inhabit. I am intrigued by the evolving of social constructs and self redefinition; intrigued by the challenges of changing…