If you create or own art
concerning menstruation or menopause and are
interested in showing it on thesepages (it's
free!), contact MUM
Marie Claire magazine
(Italian edition) featured several of the
above artists in an article
about this museum and menstruation in 2003.
The newspaper Corriere della Sera (Io Donna
magazine) (Milan, Italy) and the magazine
Dishy (Turkey) showed some of the artists in
2005 in articles about this museum.
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The Art of Menstruation at the Museum of
Menstruation and Women's Health
"FOUR CHOCOLATE EATING DAYS PER MONTH"
30"X 40" CIBACHROME PRINTS WITH BLACK
PLASTIC LETTERING
Artist Sarah McCutcheon writes,
This piece is about one of my
own personal relationships, one
that occurs four days each month
when my body demands chocolate. It
is a menstrual craving when my
hormones lose control, I have to
have chocolate, I would kill for
it! The rest of the 21 days of the
month remain for the most part
chocolate free, I can only eat one
or two chunks before feeling sick,
but, as that 'Time of the month'
approaches, I can eat pounds of
the stuff and never feel in the
slightest bit queasy. People who
are close to me ensure that there
is chocolate close to hand at this
particular time.
The images in this piece of work
reflect two cycles: one is that of
the chocolate bar itself and its
speedy demise, and the other
reflecting the menstrual cycle:
1. The Need 2. The cause 3. The
Irrationality 4. The Sanity
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NEXT artist:
Isa Menzies
See all the
artists in the links in the
left-hand column.
If you create or own art
concerning menstruation or
menopause and are interested in
showing it on these pages (it's
free!), contact MUM
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