erd Print

This artwork is a painted portrait of a woman as an icon. Icons are people rendered through religious faith and had headress marking their religious superority to others common folks. Common people are hardly ever remembered through history, so using faces of no cultural importance, and elevating them marks a shift in what can be a subject. A person, a woman that is not simply a subject of desire, but one that created her own story, and importance. Melancholy is a subject matter that I am drenched in as a person, and finding ways of marking most of my images with is important. It brings to light a sub idea linked to a negative psyche in general, and makes it ok and part of everyday life.