Woman And Reckoning, WAR Painting

“Woman and Reckoning, WAR” demonstrates a defiant female gaze, taking the historical recurring narrative of a punished woman and owning the flame. Standing at sunrise in one of the most primal landscapes we have left, she holds the torn verse Genesis 3-6, declaring downfall of man, where the story of the consumption of an apple dictates cultural female punishment for all of time. Stories can mark the fate of a demographic. We consume and perpetuate subliminal stories and narratives every day, some are fictions mistaken for truths, some hold immense power over our choices and abilities to connect with one another. ~ 'And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.' -Genesis 3.6