Ballpoint pen on butcher paper scraps
Sept. 2010
These drawings were done this past September during my residency at the Quimby Colony in Portland. I did them to work through some ideas for performance pieces during my stay at Quimby, and also as an opportunity to explore ballpoint pen a little more. The hair/mouth lady is inspired by Lavinia from Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus--her tongue and hands get cut off during the play (perverse Elizabethan penchant for gorey entertainment...), and I thought an interesting illustration of those wounds and the lasting devastation they cause would be having hair grow out of the wounds. While hair is often a symbol of femininity (refer to the Victorian fixation with it), here it also represents time and the continued visceral nature of Lavinia's wounds--hair takes an insanely long time to grow, and here it appears it has been growing from her mouth and stump wounds for years.
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