VIA SPIEKER
YEAR You’re Me
mixed jean, corduroy, and cotton
14” x 10” x 7”
2025
DESCRIPTION
You’re Me is made from found materials, zippers, teeth, cotton, and
amalgamated personal pieces of an emo girl’s collection, to make up the body
of this electrifying fully functional backpack. Bright colors and patchworked
patterns nod to the highly decorated and adorned scene kids and emo fashion
from the 90’s to present day. The DIY punk attitude expression of alternative
culture ties in within its origin in sustainability. In stitching and stapling
these articles, the often neglected, trashed and forgotten clothing items are
recycled to become a mode of transport for the coolest ghoul in school.
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Spieker creates graphic, high-contrast drawings to focus attention on the modified body and the social treatment towards them. Spieker has been a part of an exhibition at the James A. Rhodes State Office Tower, Columbus (OH) and A Real Job exhibition at Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland (OH). Her work continues in a community art project at the Cleveland Museum of Art and has received the CIA Gund Family Scholarship and a CIA Grant. Spieker currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio.
SECONDARY PIECE
Via Spieker
What if
water color, acrylic, and ink
5” x 7”