The Reality of Being Multifaceted Drawing

Continuing my thoughts on womanhood: The beginning of the Kama Sutra has a list that takes up several pages in single column, of all the things a worthy and respectable woman should know. Languages, instruments, mineralogy, swordplay, jewelry making, cockfighting, architecture... an ongoing list of disparate studies. I feel like that sometimes, like I'm supposed to be everything to everyone. Is that even possible? If it's possible, is it maintainable? Whenever I try, I start to feel overstretched, fragmented, like all the different aspects of my Self have split off instead of working together. Like when I have to be a different person at work than with my lover, how is that sustainable? With this drawing I wanted to represent the Ganika of the Kama Sutra, that mystery woman who has mastered all sixty-four random skills and has become the world's ideal. I wonder how she feels about it. Is this her ideal, or does she wish she could have focused on just twenty skills, or five, or even become a master of one? How does her expanded knowledge influence her culturally limited ability to use her knowledge because of her gender? Underneath the cover of everything she does, does she know who she is? This artwork was featured in my exhibition, "GRRRLS Like Us" at the Cherry Hill Village Theater in Canton, MI

Drawing:Pencil on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:30 W x 40 H x 0.1 D in

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