More Milk, Lighter Skin, Better Wife, 2002, plaster, tea, and ink, dimensions variable
More Milk, Lighter Skin, Better Wife is an exploration of the barrage of statements pressed onto young women and men by aunts and uncles about getting married. Each of the 97 teacups made of plaster and stained with tea have absurd statements, that have been said to me repeatedly by the Pakistani community such as You Look Beautiful in Gold!, Look at all the New Clothes you get!, But he’s an engineer!, You can travel after you get married!, Don’t you want to have children? Among many, many more.
More Milk, Lighter Skin, Better Wife is an exploration of the barrage of statements pressed onto young women and men by aunts and uncles about getting married. Each of the 97 teacups made of plaster and stained with tea have absurd statements, that have been said to me repeatedly by the Pakistani community such as You Look Beautiful in Gold!, Look at all the New Clothes you get!, But he’s an engineer!, You can travel after you get married!, Don’t you want to have children? Among many, many more.