Marigrape Jam is women's work (day 9)

I have 15 minutes to post this because I just got back from my friend Zeenat's house.  We made three litres of Coronation grape jam.   We also make crab apple jelly together and call it Crab Apple Zinger.   This jam we decided to name Marigrape.  We went through many totally inappropriate names like Grapearia, Coronia, and Marape.  A close contender was Grapenat.

All of this house work reminds me of Jennifer Schuler, a recent Master student at Emily Carr.  She looks at the role and form of women's labour through the ritual performing of it and the use of the (usually) discarded remnants of the work to create new process-oriented objects.  The colour pink is a repeated theme throughout her work.  For example, in Traces of Labour she ritually paints a canvas each day using only the colour pink, and saves the cloth and soap from washing her hands.  The cloth is then used to create imprints on paper.  Thirty-one such imprints were shown in a calendar format at the last grad exhibition at Emily Carr University.