Drawings

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  Penetration, 2012

  Graphite on paper, mixed material frames, white enamel paint Various dimensions; After researching rape cases around the world and finding alarmingly high statistics in places like China and India, I decided to focus my attention on my own country. In comparison, rape is not as common (though reported more frequently), but is absolutely an issue. I found five specific cases and using the details of the story, matched them up to different images of penetration: candles into a cake, a knife into bread, a carrot in the soil, a nail into a crumbling wall, and a post into the ground. The word “penetration” can mean many different things: it can mean exactly what the images are displaying, but can also mean something violent, and in the cases of rape, psychologically and physically damaging.

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  My Ten Neighbors

  Graphite on paper 8.5 in x 14 in; I used images of women from different parts of the world in an effort to show how there are many different types within the gender; they are categorized by age, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, etc. I was not so focused on the fact that they were females but that they were individuals with their own identities.