Women's Issues

12" x 8" x 8-3/4" 

Ceramic 

Birthed during the George Floyd protests, my contemplation of the suffering involved came back to the burden on mothers. The title references the ongoing legacy of slavery in this country. A related piece is Repository of Fear (Emmett). Click image for link.

16-1/2" x 9" x 9-1/2"

Ceramic mixed media

A thin walled female torso, this piece refers to the internal conflict of a woman in an abusive domestic situation. The bird's nest (with actual robin egg shell) is the fragile protection she tries to offer her children.  Click image for alternate view in gallery.

12-3/8" x 8" x 8"

Ceramic, candles

It's always been fascinating to me that women often appear in art as pure/idealized beings to be worshipped when they are rarely attributed deference in reality. This votive of the black Virgin type carries gelato-like flowers. An open flower at her heart leaves room for offerings. 

7" x 5" x 6-3/4"

Ceramic Incense Burner

Writing around the figure's neck says "What's going on in the pretty little head of yours?" An open back allows cone incense to be burnt inside making smoke filter through her open hairstyle. This represents how women seethe through comments like this. The impression of the letters alludes to bondage. 

5-1/4" x 9" x 8"

Ceramic Mixed media

A piece about the conflict between restrictive and controlling women's garments and the appeal they hold for some women as  fashion or liberation. The outside of the corset has chains and bonds, the inside open sky and decorative emblems. 

11-1/2" x 9-1/2"" x 10"

Ceramic, flower

This piece speaks to the tension in the mother daughter relationship, particularly in adolescence. Seeing blood, love and family bind them together, it is important to approach these tensions with an open heart.  

14" x 5-3/4" 

Ceramic

Three Graces can be read as one woman of three ages- youth, middle and old age- or as three generations- mother, daughter and grandmother. It speaks to change with time but as they are all trapped in a tower, also to  attitudes towards women that don't ever seem to change.

12" x 13"

Ceramic Mixed media

This cagelike ball of hangers that are bent and twisted, strung with the blood of women kept in 'their place' sits on a mat of feathers representing the spirits of all who've died from unsafe abortions. 

8" x 7" x 8-1/2" 

Ceramic Mixed Media

The flower is strung by bleeding strands inside the cage. A man kneels to pull the strings, manipulating the tension. 

21" x 13" x 4"

Mixed media Ceramic

Another work on abortion, here the distorted hanger is held by an outstretched suit clad arm. How many women will we lose to illegal abortion? Feathers fly, eyes are everywhere, women sacrificed as worth-less. 

6-3/4" x 3-1/2" x 6-1/2"

Mixed media Ceramic