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.
