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Women in Black Art Project
Photographs
by Colleen Young, © 2002, Women in Black Art Project |
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The Transformation Costume, layered with photographs of treatment afforded Afghan women under fundamentalist rule, is emblematic of the widespread repression and suffering millions of women throughout the world routinely experience, whether in war or not. The costume was inspired by the myth of the phoenix, a resplendent bird that rises from the fire and ashes of destruction. The poem: "I am the Woman Who has Awoken," on the skirt's train, in Dari, is by the martyred founder of the Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan, Meena, assassinated in 1987. Each stanza of the poem is collaged onto a pocket which contains a translation of that stanza into English. The pockets are also stuffed with other articles from newspapers and magazines concerning the atrocities visited upon Afghan women, and of their heroic efforts to resist thru providing underground schools for girls inside Afghanistan, and relief efforts and organizing among women in refugee camps in Pakistan for more than a decade.
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