Vanitas
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This is a series of still-life self-portraits, starkly examining femininity, fertility, work, and finances, created as I approached middle age.
The effect is unsettling, but whimsical as well as moving.
The series mixes the allegorical language of renaissance ‘Vanitas’ paintings with contemporary items. Classic vanitas objects exploring the brevity of life, the futility of pleasure, decay, death, luxury, and gluttony, exist in counterpoint with dildos, plastic dolls, dutch caps, condoms, etc.
It also features things from my professional life, my sculptural vocabulary, my benefits papers.
