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Joy Ride, 28” x 28”, oil on canvas, 2011.

Joy Ride

April 14, 2023

What happens when you imagine the witch, Baba Yaga, as a normal elderly person behaving in predictable ways? So what does she do with her down time between luring children to her hut and fattening them up to eat? I imagined that she might tear around the forest on her chicken-legged hut, house dress flapping, just for the fun of it.

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In Feminist art, Fantasy art Tags Baba Yaga, fairy tales, slavic witches, batch1
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A Mutiny. Oil on masonite board, 26” x 26”, Feb 2012

A Mutiny

April 14, 2023

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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In Feminist art Tags male gaze, women pirates, women mutineers, batch1
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Kristin Kest Fine Art, Illustration, and Ceramics

A working artist living in the beautiful Susquehanna Valley of York, PA

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