Back to my theme, I was working on women using their strength,
Back to the Women at War……..women need armour, whatever, I am a bit unfocussed after Maypole.
breaking out of cultural expectations but taking care not to be vulnerable, needing or not needing armour.
I feel Men muttering they have problems too, true, I am a woman so I am exploring what I experience without belittling men, honest.
I made the dancing figure War Dance and stitched it with phrases from The Art of War, which presumably applied to men when it was written.Using those that played to traditional female skills.
Then I started looking for sources and found many photos of the devastation in Syria. I painted the whole cloth with inks with the intention of placing my Dancing woman in the midst.
BUT it doesn’t work, maybe the whole figure doesn’t work, or the text…dunno.
Maybe better to machine stitch in the ruins and leave the absence in the middle.There is after all nothing one can say…..
