Feminism

I just had a piece, Female, accepted into an exhibit to celebrate Women's History at the Transition Gallery on the Idaho State University campus. The show, Forgotten Feminisms: History and Response to Pop Culture, is a collection of multi-media works that portray feminine responses to cultural stereotypes. It is a beautiful and thought provoking show that asks many more questions than it answers. As part of our entries each artist was asked to give some insight on each of their pieces.

Female (inside view)

Female

This piece is about feminine metamorphosis. The imagery suggests an effulgent fecundity shifting in overlapping layers with the passage of time. Cyclical phases of fullness, creativity, beauty and wisdom ebbing and flowing each day, each season, each year. An aging female’s ideals of body image from pop culture are replaced with feminine archetypes—women rich in health, beauty and wisdom. Childhood tales of wise women, female folklore and old wives' tales laying long in dormancy surprisingly surface, spread wing and take flight—laying eggs and sowing seed for the next cycle.

Female (outside view)