The traditional social model of women doing the work around the home still determines the gender division of labor. Even though the two-earner family model has become commonplace, the old division of labor has been greatly reduced or simplified, and in our increasingly urbanized society, the so-called „men’s jobs”, which traditionally involved a great deal of physical effort, have also been greatly reduced or simplified. In families with children, the burden of housework is mostly borne by the mother, and it is often only after leaving the parental home that young people grow up to realize the true weight of the task. In university halls of residence and dormitories, cleaning is a regular source of tension. Taking on the responsibility of housework is therefore also a matter of growing up and maturing. 

The invisibility and unpaidness of this work is the focus of my work. With delicate, meticulous work, I embroidered short phrases and plant designs on some of the cleaning utensils. The embroidery gave these tools a festive and unique look. Needlework, like housework, is a traditional female role. Both are characterized by taking a lot of time and energy from their performers, despite being far from spectacular tasks, but while meticulous embroidery at least ends with a visible final product, cleaning is just a return to zero, our work hidden. Embroidery itself is completely meaningless in terms of the use of objects, but its absurdity lifts them and their associated activities out of the invisibility of everyday life. The redundancy and difficulty of needlework on fragile materials seems as pointless as the invisible housework that is constantly repeated over and over again.