day one

day one
My name is Jo Nasvik and The Missoula Dress Project is a one-month performance art piece as part of my BFA thesis. As an artist I am interested in the intersection of street art, performance art, and drawing. During the month of February I have committed to wearing this wedding gown daily and will be sewing and pinning onto the dress the evidence of my consumption. Such as coffee cups, wrappers, plastic bags, paper scraps, aluminum cans.....and so on. It is important to me that my art has cultural meaning, so I chose a wedding dress to indicate the excessive "marriage" between consumers and industry.


Monday, February 20, 2012

Day 20
I am beat. My back does not want to support any further work for the day. This project has become the sole focus of my life. If I am not wearing the dress, participating in life, I am working on the dress or dreaming about the dress. I can not wait until March 1st, when I can get a break. It is both mentally and physically exhausting. I'm drinking a cup of coffee though because in a bit I am going bowling with a friend. I've been looking forward to this for a while but right now I just want to sleep and wake up in March. I hope I can pull it together. Only 9 more days!
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