Lady Chatterly Censored

Okay, so I guess I should give my artist statement on this one.  It has been awhile since I read Lady Chatterly's Lover.  This may sound like kind of a weird correlation, but I kind of relate it to the Jewish book The Thirteen Petall
ed Rose.  In particularly the section where the Rabbi explains why people should obey the Sabath and not work.  It is meant to be a reminder that humans are not machines.  It is meant to be a break from our daily routine to remind us that there is more to our identity than what we do for a living and the daily chores we perform.  I think Lady Chatterly's Lover also deals with some of this.  She finds herself stuck in this routine of a sexless marriage, and she is wasting away from it.  She is censored by the whiring cogs of moral protocals and the cultural routine.  She has to, as we all periodically should do, take a look at our life, and decide if we are really happy with the routines it can be so easy to get trapped in.

Preview of Lady Chatterly Censored

Well my photo isn't right side up, I'll figure out how to fix it later.  I got the chine cole done, and I am happy with how it turned out.  Hopefully the printing turns out.  This is for a call The Pump house put out for art based on banned books.  It's due like tomorrow so I have to hustle.

More Diversity in Figure Models

I guess I am being critical of art education lately, but this is what I am thinking about today.  In my mind there is definitely a need for more of diversity in figure models in art education.  In my experience the models were typically thin white women in their 20's.  To some extent this may be a reflection of the people who tend to gravitate towards modeling.  I mean society tends to have a stigma against heavier peope.  I could see how heavier women may not even apply because society has drilled into them that they don't have the body for it.  Speaking as an artist I can think of two instances after college where I was presented with models who deviated from 20 year old thin white women.  Admittedly both instances were more of a struggle to me.  The first was a heavier Native American woman.  The struggle being how to deal with her proportions.  The second model being black; the struggle being getting her skin color right.  I do not think I was the only person struggling.  I heard other artists at that session making comments about her skin color, not negative comments.  It was more of a how do I handle this.  In my mind this is not a good thing.  A person coming out of an art program should have had more exposure to a variety of models.  It will only make stronger artists.