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Bodily Autonomy

Poster 2022, Undue Burden at DaSilva gallery. Linda Lindroth, curator.

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Letterforms

Ritual 13: Resolve

My Ritual Open Call work began as calligraphic thank-you notes to my forebears and eventually became “gratitude,” my first installation with @ritual_open. Now that show is up in Oxon Run Park, and it’s time to think about the next location. I went from Gratitude to Rage—and now it’s Resolve. As in: I will keep finding ways […]

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Ritual Open Installation

Last week Lisa Brown, Adrian, Rome Brown, and I installed the first location for the Ritual exhibition! It features my delightful collaborators, @healherphotography, @yvonne_shortt, @threestoryranch, @galaxina500, @amirahb_art, @art.of_e, and @daria_dorosh. Photos by me and Adrian Cooke.

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Letterforms Paintings

Ritual 12a: Amendment

By the time I got to post the final banner to Instagram, the damn supreme court had followed through on its intention to revoke bodily autonomy from people who can get pregnant. So maybe this is the next banner.

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Drawings Letterforms

Ritual 12: Banner Planner

My twelfth and final banner post, long delayed. It’s been a rough couple of weeks. Work stress, car travel (always gets me), plus new medication gave me jitters and shakes for days. But a couple of weeks ago I finalized my first banner for the actual show, which begins in DC at Oxon Run Park […]

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Paintings

Ritual 11: Artemisia Gentileschi

With all the patriarchy, threats to bodily autonomy, and mass murder this week, I am thinking of Artemisia Gentileschi: her paintings, her trauma, her testimony, her world. And our world, 400 years later. Despair, yes, but also gratitude.  Thank you, Artemisia Gentileschi.  Please see paintings and learn about this artist whose work has always been seen […]

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Collages Drawings Paintings

Self portraits

Twenty years of self portraits. The mes don’t look happy! In 2022 I will make one that shows I’m having fun. 

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Paintings

Ritual 10: Square comps

I’ve been working on the 1:1 format in preparation for The Actual Banner. Here are some full composition squares…and then just one new detail from Paul Klee because I think that one might not be done yet! Might be adding a layer or two tomorrow.

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Paintings

Ritual 9: Ani DiFranco

Ani DiFranco was in one of the early compositions but she needed her own ritual. What an immense influence she has had on me, through lyrics, actions, activism, guitar. Thank you, Ani DiFranco!

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Paintings

Ritual 8: Judy Chicago, Leonora Carrington, and Paul Klee

An exuberant return to ritual! Beautiful flows emerge but then disappear in seconds as the paint dries. Only I get to see them, so I’m trying to capture some of the moments on camera. Rushing swirling roaring rivers can be underwhelming when they run dry.  Working on a paintbrush-camera shuttling maneuver that I hope to perfect or port to video.  […]