Armored Silence
15 x 12
mixed media on handmade paper (artist-made from personal notes), glass, metal
In Armored Silence, the central figure meets the viewer’s gaze through dark lenses, her form layered with fractured glass, metallic edges, and textural depth. The work is created on paper the artist formed from torn personal notes: pulped, reconstituted, and shaped into a textured sheet using traditional paper-making techniques. This surface, infused with traces of private thought, becomes the ground for embedded fragments and hand-applied details.
She echoes Alice Paul, suffragist, strategist, and architect of the 19th Amendment who stood at the White House gates for eighteen months in deliberate, weaponized silence, her stillness a gendered political performance against the systemic oppression of disenfranchisement. Due South Magazine Paul was arrested, imprisoned, and force-fed during hunger strikes. She endured all of it without surrender.
This figure carries that same armored quiet. The composition reflects the eternal tension between self-protection and exposure, the moonlike orb and scattered shards suggesting inner landscapes in flux, a moment suspended between decision and action. She is not hiding behind the glass. She is forged from it.
For 250 years, women have known that sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is meet the world’s gaze and let your presence speak louder than any words could.
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