They will Sew Themselves Anew (The Amazons) Painting

Our culture teaches us to look at non-normative body as at something worse. Not only the old, sick, time-worn bodies went out of the circle of visibility but also the young but non-conforming to the beauty standards of our modern culture. When we deny our bodies the right to having traces of experience, sometimes of serious diseases in form of scars or distortions after amputations, considering them ugly and worthy of rejection only because its beauty does not fit into the existing canons, we destroy something very important, unique, individual – a part of our history inscribed in our body. There are situations like mastectomy when it is difficult to accept the marks of the experience. Women going through real internal dramas, often lose their self-confidence. For them, an opportunity to improve their image becomes the way to strengthen their self-esteem. To create the painting of two titles: "They will Sew Themselves Anew" and "The Amazons" in which I refer to the topic of mastectomy, I used two fabrics with some distance between them in form of wooden boards painted in the colours of the fabrics. The painting makes an impression of being three dimensional. (Unfortunately, photographs does not show this.) Depending on the angle that you look at it from, you can see better both layer or just the top one, if you look from a side. The lower layer of the painting is a multicolour fabric with printed floral and folk patchwork. There is a composition on it painted with white, dashed line. The composition presents overlapping forms of dresses with outlined bras and corsets which was repeated also on the top layer of the painting although in slightly smaller range. Some chosen fragments of the upper layer were glaze- painted white which allowed me to get some space and extract the dresses painted with dashed line from the background. In a few spots with the use of a white paint, I put a drawing of a lace on a few chosen fragments of the dresses, using the pattern already existing on the industrial fabric. Laces have horizontal holes (as if they were torn) in the places where the scars after mastectomy occur. The dashed lines constructing the open composition of the painting again are to be associated with both the drawing on the body done during plastic surgeries and tailoring, fashion, sewing and backstitches. The canvas, on which decorative fabrics are stretched, is artist quality stretched on high quality traditional timber stretchers. This painting requires no frame, the edges are painted and it's ready to hang in place. It will be shipped in a professionally constructed timber crate.

Multi-paneled Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:39.4 W x 55.1 H x 1.2 D in

Number of Panels:2

Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.