Installation of Little Dresses

The first time I ever thought of making an installation, it was mostly to achieve a certain quality of light. In 1994, in the middle of winter, at a studio given to me by the Sharpe Foundation in New York, I took antique children's dresses and printed images of myself on them with liquid emulsion, then dipped them in wax and lit them from the inside with a few tiny christmas lights. The whole installation is a dark room with little glowing dresses hanging on tiny hangers—with long waxy drips hanging down—the piece is more about the internal mood and the quality of warm dim light in the room than it is about any one individual dress or image.