We Came So Far
oil, pastel, acrylic goache, and charcoal on arches oil paper mounted on panel
33 x 24
We’re born into our specific time and location- with its own set of cultural norms and realities. I’ve found myself trying to untangle these. Faced with nostalgia and engaged in personal reckoning, my paintings use broken color and line to create and then break the very figures I render. The surface becomes rich with layered marks as I scratch and draw into the paper. Slowly building the surface, I question more of my own understandings and those driving change. This forms a dialog between myself, those who have come before me, and those who will come. The women are never fully rendered or depicted as smooth and perfect; nostalgia lies- it was never perfect. Each painting also asks the overarching question “What would they say?”
These women, standing near but not too close to a house, seem to say, “We came so far.” And then, “But where are we going?”
Those who came before us demand that we not forget or succumb to nostalgia; nostalgia for a past that was never designed with women’s full potential in mind, that seems to be sweeping our country again.
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