This is part of my modern day muses. If necessities cost the same for everyone, how do women live on .77 on the dollar? This is just the beginning of her hair. I lived in Dallas for awhile. This girl is going to have BIG hair.
Gorgon
I found these round pieces of plywood at the Habitat Resale shop. I also ran across and idea in an old journal of the Muses. So I have nine rounds and I’m referring to the 21st century muses. Polyhymnia is the muse of womanly things, but thinking of how to live on 77 cents on a dollar, with the cost of necessities not the least bit easier on the female side, the muse had become a Gorgon. The kids encyclopedia’s from the library on snakes was both cool and CREEPY. Thanks to the Fines Creek Branch of the Haywood Public Library.
Muse of Democracy
I’m not sure what the job of my 21st century muses is, but everybody’s getting new titles and job descriptions. The board is round. Democracy is hard work.
Hybrid
I’m thinking about the impact of humanity on nature. We mess with it thru bioengineering, selective breeding and technological enhancements. The results are…mixed. The giraffe has intruded on my mind. I’ve used a QR code to “improve” the animal. Today is day one.
Drawing
I’m annoyed with the gridlock in D.C. They’ll bicker, and never get anything done. This figure represents a quote I heard from a young mother. She said “We’re okay as long as nothing bad happens.” How long can we walk a tightrope with no jobs and the Tea Party fanatically dismantling the social safety net?
Digital landscape
A friend just got a computer virus. Took her 6 hrs. to get it cleaned out. Our digital landscape is starting to look threatening.
TMI
I’ve been doing a series of drawings, well I call them drawings. There’s acrylic washes, writing, and collage, along w/ the drawing so maybe they are ‘mixed media”. Whatever. I use the oval face of a woman wearing a skull cap as the starting point to investigate the stresses on women, and lately stresses from the world news. I kept honing in, showing the stress on the cap, then a partial face, and finally just in the eye. The media is making me worry about women in Arab countries, or Japan, or now, Alabama. I feel there pain, but I also need to step back. This is called” Too Much Information.”
abstract flowers
Are there measurable degrees of abstract -edness? I believe these paintings are more about paint than flowers.
das Uninsured
The CDC estimates that half of all Americans do NOT have health insurance. If competition is a basic tenet of capitalism, what do private insurers fear? And if they are so good at insurance, why are half of all Americans exposed to financial disaster from any health issue? Sure you make more profit off of the young and healthy, but isn’t the idea of insurance to spread the risk?
HAARM
Add this to hairbrained GOP solutions for health care. HAARM.org