Airless, 18” x 24”h, oil on canvas. 2002.
This image was inspired by a poem by Adrienne Rich, Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law. The line that so struck me goes like this: “She shaves her legs until they gleam like petrified mammoth tusk.” It speaks about the habits and traditions given to us from our mothers, behaviors we’d barely questioned or given a passing thought…
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A Mutiny. Oil on masonite board, 26” x 26”, Feb 2012
Many of the stories I’d read years ago~ like Treasure Island, Moby Dick, Toilers of the Sea, The Three Musketeers, etc.~ are unabashedly for boys and all of the activity centers around how men behave in groups, their moral codes, and an emphasis on brotherhood. I wondered what the art would look like if the story were instead written about women…
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