Boob Job

Back in Lawrence, Kansas, the Goddess Collective is hosting a Breast Fest for one of their members, which reminds me that it is nearly that time of year: October, AKA Breast Awareness Month. Media everywhere will be encouraging women to think about--even touch--their own boobs. I already do this regularly. And I allow The Artist to do it sometimes, too.

My contribution to the melon love: I am attempting to complete a project for the women's art show at our gallery before I leave for my Kansas vacation (and a business conference) on Oct. 11.
My next fiber arts project is tentatively entitled "Otrera: Reconstructed." It is a vest that exposes one breast, while the other side flatly covers the mastectomy scar and has a leather replica boob sewn on. The Artist is casting my right boob to be the mold for the leather.

My biggest issue is how to display the thing. Your average female mannequin has two perky breasts. I found a one tit mannequin on eBay, but, hello? $89.99! And it's not even the correct boob.



So I need to make a dress form out of paper tape, remove the right breast and retape. It can't be so hard. Except that it's not really a one-person job. This is one more reason I need girlfriends IN THE SAME CITY.

I'm thinking about asking my neighbor to help me out. She's a tiny, mousy woman with SIX children under the age of twelve. Her husband is Mexican (read: traditional, even patriarchal) and she homeschools the older kids. She admitted the other day that she's seeing a counselor and taking some anti-anxiety medication. Well, duh! Even though she grew up in this area, I get the feeling that she doesn't have very many women friends. While she would never allow me to do anything for her, she might be willing to do a favor for me--which would get her out of the house and allow her to speak freely if she wanted to. Subversive, no?

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I have one boob way bigger than the other from breast feeding - big boobie and little boobie! I had to ring into a Vancouver(BC) radio station and give my opinion on air about bearing breasts in public to breast feed - (I'm pro, the journalists and all the men that came thro' were seriously anti!)
fiona mackey 09.22.06 - 9:33 am

I lost my left boob to cancer, so the mannequin seems right to me.
enarda 09.25.06 - 7:54 am