"Women internalize the idea that they always need to be performing their identity for a public audience. That pressure starts in teendom, goes through college and early adulthood, and extended into motherhood. The more public you are in your performance, the more you submit yourself to others’ disciplining eye, and women must always be disciplined."
- Anne Helen Peterson, Cuture Study Newsletter
This internal conditioned pressure and performance combined with the discipline of women is what my work is in protest of. Here is a small smattering of the art I've made while contemplating the complexities of womanhood in patriarchy. Covering everything from sexual pleasure, birth, motherhood taboos, the body, menstruation, and beyond!
