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What do the ladders mean ?

This work suggests the idea of community through the way ladders can't stand alone but need to be supported; in this case, by each other.

These ladder like structures have been wrapped with fabric, old rags and cloths, from her own friends. The way they lean together evokes the huddling, or "hunkering" as the title suggests, of a community of individuals. Using her friends' fabrics made it even more personal. She said "It meant that I was literally putting all these women in the work."

Hunkertime

Harmony Hammond

Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

ARTIST Harmony Hammond, American, born 1944

MEDIUM Cloth, wood, acrylic, gesso, latex rubber, rhoplex, and metal

DATES 1980

DIMENSIONS 81 x 192 x 29 in. 205.7 x 487.7 x 73.7 cm

COLLECTIONS Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

ACCESSION NUMBER 2019.23a-i

CREDIT LINE Gift of Elizabeth A. Sackler in honor of Catherine Morris, Senior Sackler Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

PROVENANCE By 2019, acquired from the artist by Elizabeth A. Sackler; 2019, gift of Elizabeth A. Sackler to the Brooklyn Museum.

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What do the ladders mean ?

This work suggests the idea of community through the way ladders can't stand alone but need to be supported; in this case, by each other.