Will You Hear My Plea, 2023

Installation

Fiber, mixed media, original music

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The artist continues to explore the roles of women in her latest
installation, “Who Will Hear My Plea?,” as she works with images of
saints, martyrs, and goddesses. Using the figure she delightfully calls
BAH!, which first came to her in a dream, she explores the limitations,
bravery, passion, zeal and compassion of figures related to the Catholic
church, paganism, and other cultures.

Using imagery from the Renaissance and Middle Ages as reference, a
time when the general population could not read nor write, and utilized
this imagery as their “lesson”, the artist observed only small differences
between a woman’s life then and now.

Who might women call today?

What messages might these images from the past offer to women today?

Who might possibly hear today’s women in their plea for help?

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