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2010 (Size: 30" x 20") |
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Non sequitur - non + saboteur = Sequiteur The stagecoach and masthead represent antiquated masculine invention. The fire is the impending destruction of the status quo. The woman’s head embodies the feminine gender forced into specific direction through the ages, void of extremities and power. Women’s hair has often mirrored their role in societies of olde; each strand quietly in its place. Tightly wound, organized on the surface and pulling back the woman’s head in a locked position, so she is able to see only one way. But on the other side the internalized pressure builds: there is an inevitable explosion from the valve, an exhaust of her excess madness. Years ago I had loathed pink. I refused to use it as a large color component simply because I thought it was too "little girly". Then I grew up and realized my mistake; I was conditioned by a society to see a color not only as gender-associated (my own, no less) but actually negative. In using more shades of pink in my work (including Bodice Ripper) it started to become for me a "power color" rich with nuance, and strength. "The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'" "Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison". -- Mary Wollstonecraft "Because women's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we're nagging bitches and if we enjoy sex we're nymphos and if we don't we're frigid and if we love women it's because we can't get a "real" man and if we ask our doctor too many questions we're neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect childcare we're selfish and if we stand up for our rights we're aggressive and "unfeminine" and if we don't we're typical weak females and if we want to get married we're out to trap a man and if we don't we're unnatural and because we still can't get an adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk on the moon and if we can't cope or don't want a pregnancy we're made to feel guilty about abortion and...for lots of other reasons we are part of the women's liberation movement." -- Author unknown, quoted in The Torch, 14 September 1987 "Ophelia was a tempest cyclone, a goddam hurricane..." -- Natalie Merchant |