“A girlhood of one’s own”

This abstract self portrait is an oil painting featuring a horse, resting on a little girl's bed. Behind the horse, who is too comfortable to run, the yellow wall paper slowly takes over the room, twisting and creeping. On the bedside table is a bell jar and a pair of red heart-shaped sunglasses. A childhood comfort item is tucked under the bed, hidden, but equally visible. A journal on the floor is flanked by a peacock fountain pen and a glitter pen. A page is ripped out of the journal. The author was either too embarrassed to her let her words breathe or, perhaps, she was silenced.

This painting holds references to Charlotte Gilman, Sylvia Plath, Flannery O'Connor, Taylor Swift, and Virginia Woolf, among other Easter eggs and is a coming-of-age story.

“A girlhood of one’s own”
36 x 48” | Oil
2024

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