In the Crosshairs

"In the Crosshairs" suggests attack through many cuts that invade the space and erase part of her person.  Yet even if her existence is fragile, her eyes witness and judge and ensure nothing is forgotten.  She becomes at once predator and prey, and gains permanence and power with her stare that sees everything always.

As with most of my work, there is an element of what's covered up and what's exposed.  I intentionally wanted to create daggers or spikes around her neck, given it's natural vulnerability. I also wanted to deconstruct her into abstraction, so I used a mix of techniques, including using tape to cover segments of the under layer of painting that I wanted to preserve, painting over the tape, then removing it.  The process of deciding what to keep and what to overwrite mirrors how we can think of self.  What makes her whole.  What makes her alive.  What gives her control.