"I equate the dreary black-and-white photographs of dated flower arrangements from Woman’s Own Book of Flower Arrangements and its ‘do and don’t’ text instructions to the darkness enveloping our current world, which seems to be moving backward in time with its mobilization against women and LGBTQIA+ rights,” Doreen Wittenbols.
Wittenbols revisits Woman’s Own Book of Flower Arrangements again to continue her exploration of restrictive gender roles and hegemonic cultural conditioning.