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| Lying Book, 1990 |
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| The Love Doll - Day 14 Candy, 2010 |
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| The Love Doll- Day 25-The Jump, 2010 |
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| Walking Glove 1991 |
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| Walking House 1989 |
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| Walking Petit Four 1990-1991 |
Walking Gun, 1991
http://www.pbs.org/art21/images/laurie-simmons/walking-gun-the-music-of-regret-2006
http://www.lauriesimmons.net/photographs/walking-and-lying-objects/
http://www.salon94.com/artists/detail/laurie-simmons
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1998.440
http://zoolander52.tripod.com/theartsection5.10/id20.html
Laurie Simmons was born in 1949 in New York. Her work appealed to me because i noticed how ost of the work shows women's legs with stereotypical "women" things on top of the legs. For example, the Petite Four meant to me that women are supposed to cook or the house because women are supposed to be home makers. However, what really drew me in were the pictures that didn't fit the normal mold. These included the pictures with the gun on top of the legs and the book on top of the legs. The black and white appearance of the pictures made me think they were supposed to represent an older time and I thought women definitely wouldn't have been encouraged to use guns. Likewise, I feel like women weren't really given the chance to educate themselves and I think that's what the book represents. As I read more about Laurie Simmons, I found out her purpose of creating these pieces was to showcase life for women after the war.
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