#Adele/Y gallery Group Show/Duality

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~Adele~ A closer look at PANTY MAN | Duality/Group Show @ Y Gallery Woodbrook, Port-of-Spain. Trinidad and Tobago.

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Duality * Y Gallery Group Show

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Panty Man - Adele Todd 

Quilted blanket and dimensional embroidery thread . 81 x 65” 2021

As a Performance Artist who works with Embroidery and Soft Materials among other Media, the possibilities for DUALITY seemed endless. However, eventually I was moved to consider "Male Toxicity" as my theme.The word Panty Man that is done tongue-in-cheek in neon pink is the Title that sets the viewer on their path of discovery.The slang term is used to describe a man who is coddled and feminine in nature and a slur to homosexual men in particular.The work is a large dark blue quilt with embroidery threads that on closer observation create individual words that must be looked at at close range and also, can only be seen one at a time as they do not have a chronology. The viewer must move their own bodies to 'read' the piece.The quilt is a symbol of nurturing, safety and warmth. The loose threads that thus fall from the quilt symbolises the unravelling of that safety. We generally expect men to be 'men' and are unaware of how much our stereotyping of the male sex confuses boys as they grow to manhood. I hope that my piece shall inspire those who interact with it, the opportunity, to consider when they themselves have perhaps used terminology seen on the quilt or words to that nature to define a man's character. We are all guilty of a level of sexual politics for its own gain and must now consider that sensitivity is not a one way street.-Adele Todd

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DUALITY/Group Show @ Y Gallery | Woodbrook Trinidad & Tobago

Adele Todd . 

Quilted blanket and dimensional embroidery thread. 

81 x 65”2021

As a Performance Artist who works with Embroidery and Soft Materials among other Media, the possibilities for DUALITY seemed endless. 

However, eventually I was moved to consider "Male Toxicity" as my theme.

The word Panty Man that is done tongue-in-cheek in neon pink is the Title that sets the viewer on their path of discovery.

The slang term is used to describe a man who is coddled and feminine in nature and a slur to homosexual men in particular.

The work is a large dark blue quilt with embroidery threads that on closer observation create individual words that must be looked at at close range and also, can only be seen one at a time as they do not have a chronology. 

The viewer must move their own bodies to 'read' the piece.The quilt is a symbol of nurturing, safety and warmth. 

The loose threads that thus fall from the quilt symbolises the unravelling of that safety. 

We generally expect men to be 'men' and are unaware of how much our stereotyping of the male sex confuses boys as they grow to manhood. 

I hope that my piece shall inspire those who interact with it, the opportunity, to consider when they themselves have perhaps used terminology seen on the quilt or words to that nature to define a man's character. 

We are all guilty of a level of sexual politics for its own gain and must now consider that sensitivity is not a one way street.

-Adele Todd

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~ADELE~ Three images taking a closer look at PANTYMAN | Duality Group Show/Y Gallery. Woodbrook Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 

DUALITY - Virtual Opening:April 26th 2021 - (to be announced)