I named this piece “Isn’t it funny” because the inspiration for the piece came from looking at an old text book on society written in the fifties. I thought it would be “funny” in a cool way to have the images from that time be juxtaposed with one of my angry feminist women. I used an old looking map and as I pasted them down to the board, all the pages serendipitously fit perfectly around, no need for cutting, and no need for searching for more images, and not throwing any to the side. I understand the link this punching figure represents to the prim and proper photos and illustrations of women getting ready for marriage, gossiping women and cheerleaders and daydreaming female students, and a painting monkey, but I do not wish to concretely make a statement about how those images and my figure relate. This piece comes from an inner dialogue between my conscious and subconscious. This piece, as with most of my pieces are a mirror for myself from my subconscious. I like the energy my female figure brings to these old pages. The color around her I created while dancing around her, slamming at the panel on the floor, dripping and pouring and hitting and dragging and scratching at the surface. The end result is a map of an emotion being expelled.
Paper and Collage mounted on Panel Oil, Ink, Lithographers Crayon, and Pure Pigment 48″ x 42″