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Jean M Plough
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Bound by Indecision & Circumstance. Acrylic on canvas. 48 x 24 inches. 2011
The figure is bound to tradition and circumstance. She is helpless to do things for herself. Shown with her arms bound, she can move, but cannot see where she is going or what she is doing.
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Lorena Pugh
This work is part of a series, “The Pear: A Subjective Figure”. These paintings address both the subjective and venerable nature of the female form. They are works within a larger series that has metaphorically delved into what it means to have a desirable or repulsive, elusive or available body. Using the produce bag, I have alluded to the issues of ownership, of servitude and of suffocation. This pear series is intended to represent a woman’s experience of her physical self, and in this painting in particular, of women bound.
Nora Raggio
STOP THE TRAFFIC: Trapped. Mixed media. 36 x 12 inches. 2012*
STOP THE TRAFFIC is a series of work devoted to the consequences of the huge, illegal, underground business of human trafficking. Bound by poverty and youth, and, on the other hand, pushed by an insatiable demand for sex, teens are physically and mentally abused as they are traded for profit.
