"It Cuts Deep"

"It Cuts Deep"
2016
Acrylic paint, yarn, spackling paste
Dimensions: 36” x 48”

Original (altered and updated from this picture) - $1800

I was working with a heavy hand in the plaster and paint with various palette knives when this presence of a woman appeared. I felt led to 'sew' into the canvas with messy red yarn stitches covered in matte acrylic medium. To me, it can symbolize blood cascading either from the wrists (with arms held out in front of the figure) or the ovaries. Either way, literally 'cutting' yourself or feeling figuratively 'stabbed' in your woman parts (like men are wont to say) are ways I have expressed my hurt and despair.