GALLERY FOUR: Blood & Milk Mysteries

Watercolor on Paper

Menstruation is essential to the female experience yet rarely depicted in visual art. Rather than hiding or catching the flow, in this painting the stream of blood is intimately integrated into the woman’s natural surroundings.

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Watercolor and Gouache on Paper

This painting belongs to a series of paintings exploring menstruation.

It occurred to me that although the biblical Mary was a virgin she must have menstruated like other women. This image (without  the blood!) was appropriated from a fresco by Fra Angelico (or one of his assistants,) painted on the wall of a monk's cell in the Friary of San Marco in Florence, Italy. I was so entranced by the image that I sat in the monk's cell and copied the image adding my own twist to it!

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India Ink and Colored Pencil on Paper

We exploit animals for their milk so I thought it would be fair for animals to obtain human milk in reciprocal fashion.

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Pencil on Paper

Although anatomically impossible, I see the figure creating the action of an elegant, extremely low tech breast pump. The urn evokes a classical aesthetic.

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Pencil on Paper

An anatomically impossible rendering, but one that expresses the jublilant spirit at the moment of birth.

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