pushing up daisies

gouache on found doilies (table top size) everything I ever wanted -acrylic on cut-out canvas applied to painted wall The images that I have added to the fabric combine furniture, the human body, and domestic objects. They all deal with conflicted feelings of domestic celebration and potential domestic entrapment and disillusionment. I thought of women I know and how women deal with different roles that aren’t always necessarily wanted, but acquired. I considered female stereotypes as a mother and hence “no longer a sexual being,” loss of self, and dependency. Collective feelings of abandonment, isolation, and inadequacy can get buried within a well-decorated house. At the same time, the images of beautiful things also embrace the love that is tied into being a caregiver- whether it is of people or objects. The wall painting follows similar thoughts but excludes the human figure.