Uncle Sam Says | Original Fiber Artwork

Uncle Sam Says is an original nylons on hook fiber artwork by Lucine Kaplan, created in 2025.

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An exploration of women’s wartime contributions and the systems that seek to control their power.

Artwork details

• Artist: Lucine Kaplan

• Year: 2025

• Collection: Ripping the Seams — Female Gaze

• Dimensions: 30 × 12 inches

• Medium: Original nylons on hook fiber artwork

• One original artwork available

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Poem by Lucine Kaplan

UNCLE SAM SAYS / HOSTAGE (1942)

Uncle Sam said, “Nylons won the war”

But it’s a woman who discovered their use
for parachutes
and gun powder bags

And it’s the women
who donated their garments
to the flag

It’s the women
who raised
who fed
who nurtured
our soldiers

Women won that war

And yet, women are tied down over the fire
of the traditional home

If no one else, it’s she alone and grown

Grown to see the bigger picture
Grown to innovate
Grown to resource

He tries
to limit our power
within these 4 walls

As we rise above the flame
his instinct
to cut our ties

We fly

He, the gaslight
makes us believe
we are falling

Uncle Sam says,
“it’s impossible for women
to float above the sky”

So he invents a solution
ensuring we never fall in the flames
a commodity

Marketing to women everywhere with his new product
we could fly for the good of all
without pain

Under his idea, his control, his company

He knows, create a product for women with a promise
It’s women who will buy and never miss

With that promise, we are tied down again to
commodity

Until we remember who we are without him

Enter our next epiphany