1ST ED. 2023
Monique Wittig
The Straight Mind and Other Essays
Monique Wittig
The Vice Consul and The Ravishing of Lol Stein are how I learned about French Feminist Theory, besides reading Luce Irigaray. I am working on an ongoing series of portraits based upon Wittig’s epic poem Les Guérillères. Witting challenges the role of gender in the French language. I stretched and interpreted her series of vignettes in Les Guérillères, exploring non-gender specific, lesbian and genderfluid portraiture in my ceramic works dating from 2014 – present.
The Vice-Consul
Marguerite Duras
The Ravishing of Lol Stein
Marguerite Duras
I based a series of works on Duras in the late 1980’s, a series of cast bronze wigs, that were portraits of women without objectifying them. I reflected upon the woman as an absence in Duras’ writing. The woman is always pursued and never found.
Carol
Patricia Highsmith
Beloved
Toni Morrison