Yarn has long been associated with women, both historically and in popular culture. The traditional association of yarn with handicrafts such as knitting and crocheting, have historically been seen as women's activities and domesticity as it is often used to create items such as blankets, sweaters, and doilies.
#ladybasketball
Untitled studies, 2025
Posters from an imagined lineage of women’s basketball where visibility, sponsorship, and cultural weight were never in question.
Moving between humor, critique, and possibility, the work plays with what could have been, with an intentionally irreverent edge.
Featured piece:
Untitled, a study from 2024
Dimensions: 29.5 in.
“From the beginning, the WBL used size 6 basketballs, which are about one inch smaller and two ounces lighter than men’s basketballs with a circumference of 28.5 inches and weighing 20 ounces.
The smaller basketball size was suggested by WBL player Karen Logan. Her reasoning was that women’s hands are smaller on average than men’s hands and their upper body strength also differs. However, her suggested change was not based on any specific evidence or research. For all three seasons of the WBL’s existence, women played with the smaller basketball.
When the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) was formed in 1996, they also adopted the Size 6 basketball.
WBL player Karen Logan was the woman responsible for starting the conversation about developing a reduced size basketball specifically from women’s basketball applications. In 1977, she made a presentation where she identified nine advantages that a smaller ball would create including increased ball-handling skills, increasing overall game speed and facilitating more scoring.
In 1977, Logan made a proposal to make the basketball smaller and lighter but her suggestions were rejected. A year later in 1977, she met Bill Burns who was starting the Women’s Professional Basketball League (WBL) and saw the new ball as a marketing opportunity, a publicity tool for their new league, and a revenue resource for licensing. He took the concept to Wilson who created the first size 6 basketball.
Today the size 6 basketball is still used in the WNBA as well as in high school and collegiate women’s basketball.”
- NCAA FINAL FOUR
