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"May 1969", oil on wood, 13 x 14 | Inspiration is drawn from the Renaissance paintings of Saints. These paintings seem to capture a type of reverence in relation to the viewer's experience, elevating the perspective from visual to revelatory in the form of epiphany. |
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| Unlike the paintings of Saints, the figures I use in my work are appropriated from the Playboy magazines that I secretly gazed at as an adolescent girl. I remove these women from the context of �pornography� and place them in a position of exaltation. An object not only to be desired sexually but admired or revered in an almost spiritual way. | |||||||||
"November 1969", oil on wood, 13 x 14 | In my painting, installation and video work there is a suggestion of the notion of female freedom expressed through a naivet� or innocence, whether the figure is drawn in paint, a piece of thread connected by nails or putting on a pair of nylons. It is all an attempt at heightening the everyday in order to comprehend existence, the essence of life and the real. | ||||||||
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