“A ripe harvest”
70 × 100 cm, acrylic on canvas
70 × 100 cm, acrylic on canvas
What does it mean to be shaped by expectation before desire?
To be sweet before being seen?
This work investigates the tension between imposed femininity and emerging autonomy.
To be sweet before being seen?
This work investigates the tension between imposed femininity and emerging autonomy.
It addresses the learned performance of softness — the inheritance of sweetness, silence, and self-erasure. The girl next door, innocent, a men's fantasy.
The female body becomes a site of projection: desirable, helpful, beautiful, but never hers.
The female body becomes a site of projection: desirable, helpful, beautiful, but never hers.
In our society, in our patriarchal system, womanhood is often not about identity, but utility. A role to be embodied for the comfort of others, shaped to please men. Sweetness as a social control disguised as character. It can take a lifetime of experiences and pain to unlearn what was put on us like a heavy coat. A coat meant to hold us warm and safe, yet it only drags us down, covering our inner truth, our raw identity. We're garnished with sweet cherries, but we go for sovereignty.
