Scale Lady was inspired by a quote from my mother: “A woman spends her entire adult life trying to lose weight.” The pressures of weight-loss culture spans across generations, symbolized by the vintage scale, and lead to an adversarial relationship with the body. This sculpture approaches the subject with a sense of humor through its lanky, veiny legs and plump feet shoved into shoes. The use of readymades makes reference to Marcel Duchamp, though his sculptures utilized more masculine objects like the urinal Fountain (1917), while Scale Lady uses the pantyhose and bathroom scale to connect to feminist themes.