Grandma's Bottle Village Tressa Prisbrey Analysis
Tressa Prisbrey or famously known as “Grandma Prisbrey” was the creator of the Grandma’s Bottle Village, which is a folk art collection, located in Simi Valley, California. It is without a doubt that Grandma Prisbrey lived in this wonderland as her home for years, though, she later moved out from the village due to bad health condition. Specifically, the Grandma’s Bottle Village is regarded as a complex work by art historians and folklorists combining the desires of a “Grandma” in which containing all her precious things in one masterpiece that she created. When I first met this lovely elderly lady, I personally think that she is just a normal “Grandma” who enjoy her retirement by spending quality time with her family, however, she totally
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As a result, the structures itself was in fact her desire to prove that a poor, ordinary woman could make something extraordinary out of nothing. I personally think that the reason why she built it was simply because she wanted to create “something” to express her emotions, summarizing her stories as well as telling the people that how gender discrimination played an important role during her times. Despite the fact that she sometimes claimed that she built it was simply a hobby to keep her busy in old age, however, she was no doubt motivated by part of her tragedies that she suffered through her life. For example, she lost her children who died of cancer or heart disease; her death of her siblings; her husband who was killed in a car accident, and etc. These tragic elements of her life ended up becoming her inspirations to connect the creation and maintenance of the Bottle Village. As an instance, one of the structures was built for one of her daughters who loved “rose”. Throughout the creative process, she built these structures by recycling things that have been losing their purposes; she then resembled them together, providing a new meaning for these “meaningless materials”. This is similar to Rodia’s Watts Towers, which these two outsider artists built something extraordinary out of nothing as a way to express their personal stories to the world, though, the only difference is that they both used different
As a result, the structures itself was in fact her desire to prove that a poor, ordinary woman could make something extraordinary out of nothing. I personally think that the reason why she built it was simply because she wanted to create “something” to express her emotions, summarizing her stories as well as telling the people that how gender discrimination played an important role during her times. Despite the fact that she sometimes claimed that she built it was simply a hobby to keep her busy in old age, however, she was no doubt motivated by part of her tragedies that she suffered through her life. For example, she lost her children who died of cancer or heart disease; her death of her siblings; her husband who was killed in a car accident, and etc. These tragic elements of her life ended up becoming her inspirations to connect the creation and maintenance of the Bottle Village. As an instance, one of the structures was built for one of her daughters who loved “rose”. Throughout the creative process, she built these structures by recycling things that have been losing their purposes; she then resembled them together, providing a new meaning for these “meaningless materials”. This is similar to Rodia’s Watts Towers, which these two outsider artists built something extraordinary out of nothing as a way to express their personal stories to the world, though, the only difference is that they both used different