Red Hot New > no bed of roses

The bed and our relationship with it is complex. The bed is associated with passion and intimacy. A bed, for some, is a place of safety, a deep personal connection, and a retreat. One's bed is often a symbol of Home, care, deep personal connection, and retreat from the world. It is a place to heal but also a place of death, disease, domestic abuse, and other unseemly acts.
As a woman and artist, the work titled "no bed for roses" brings to the surface the painful reality of the absence of autonomy and agency for one's own body - its sexual desires and reproductive rights as some unpleasant aspects of living in the man's world. Our private, personal, and intimate are made unpleasantly public.

No Bed of Roses
mattress foam, canvas, unfired clay, ceramic
39” x 49” x 8”| 2022
No Bed of Roses
mattress foam, canvas, unfired clay, ceramic
39” x 49” x 8”| 2022
No Bed of Roses (detail)
mattress foam, canvas, unfired clay, ceramic
39” x 49” x 8”| 2022