Dish War!

Shadow work comes from the term “the shadow self,” which was coined by famed 20th-century psychologist Carl Jung. In Jungian psychology, this term describes the unconscious parts of the personality that our conscious ego doesn't want to identify in itself.

Here the woman in ‘Yellow’ is the performance artist Amanda Coogan at IMMA, the constant scrubbing of a woman’s dress in?Yellow?necessarily?brings to mind?the infamous Magdalene Laundries.

Even though doing the dishes doesn’t take that long, just the feeling of all the women over the years cleaning after men, makes my ego have these extreme emotions.

P.S. I never had to ask my boyfriend to do the dishes after i started planning the painting.