I recall how you guys suggested I share more and vulnerably so that we can build out the best narrative of the work together….. so …… I also think personally...
I recall how you guys suggested I share more and vulnerably so that we can build out the best narrative of the work together….. so ……
I also think personally I am connected to the strippers
As a single motherless woman in my forties for if we look thru the more religious lens of art history / culture, we have the virgin, the mother, and the horror. Obviously we are much less narrow a society today than previous times, but I do think there is still this kind of what do we do with these women; how do we understand their role and place; how do I understand my role and place….
That said, all of the woman except the one of mardee I have portraits of are in their late thirties to mid forties single without kids. A sub theme but an important one as we are still at the front of the “feminist” wave of this “without” and wondering how we still are “within.”
So there is on the one hand the imagined images of motherhood, the portraits of the woman always hinting at another (aniko with the empty chair or swan, Jessica with the dog looking to someone perhaps coming in, woman from behind looking to the man in the painting, aniko in three where the viewer becomes the mirror and yet we know she is taking this to send to someone else) and then there are the strippers, this outside, on the margin, perimeter place to identify with as we become more and more confirmed to be women on the margin as we age childless and marriage less.