The Bra Ball
Artist Emily Duffy created a giant bra ball reminiscent of the popular rubber band ball as an art project.
The amazing ball, which was completed in 2003, grew to be over five feet tall, weighs 1800 pounds and contains an amazing 18 085 bras. To create the ball the artist hooked the bras together end-to-end and began rolling them up. As the ball grew, it began to resemble an egg, then a globe, and perhaps even an ovary or breast. Women began to donate their bras to the project, and soon the ball was more than twice its originally planned size!
In the artist’s own words, “Breasts are often a source of conflicting emotions for women. Our personal body experiences are rarely reflected in media images we see. A woman may feel ashamed, proud, annoyed, and sexual about her breasts during just one menstrual cycle, or even a single day. Almost every woman has a bra story to tell. Some are traumatic, others joyful. A first bra is one of our culture’s rites of passage for women, yet it’s often a secret, mumbled between teenaged girls and their mothers in store dressing rooms.
Using bras as an art medium (something I’ve been doing for several years now) is a way of disrupting some of the longstanding taboos surrounding them.”
Learn more about the Bra Ball project at www.braball.com
