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Formidable Women: Liza MacKinnon

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Ada Lovelace

The talk of Lawrence, Kansas lately has been Liza MacKinnon's sculpture show at the Percolator Gallery. Too bad---but it's over.


Liza, a librarian, makes paper dresses to recall formidable historical figures. Mathematician Ada Lovelace's dress (about 3 feet tall) is made from pages of her biography and decorated with flowers fashioned from computer punch cards. The repeat pattern is zeroes and ones---all the numbers you need.





Detail of Marie Antoinette's dress with trim of currency. Most of the dress, about 2-1/2 feet tall
is tax forms.


She's also made smaller pieces; this one's about a foot tall.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's dress is painted pages
from her book Frankenstein. Details include black cross stitches
in the skirt to represent the creature.



Susan Wolfe's photo of Mary Todd Lincoln's dress




Marie Curie with a little radium glow through
x-ray film

Lawrence's own Lucy Hobbs Taylor

Friend Kathy bought the Duchess of Pembroke's Elizabethan dress.


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