I may have seen the constellation Cassiopeia last night as I drove home from Sudbury with the two girls, spent out after a day of shopping. April had her scoliosis x-ray. We saw a curve, her and I.
To do:
Self portrait with Joyce Wieland
Self portrait with Mary Pratt.
Self portrait with Betty Goodwin
Self portrait with Emily Carr
No other way to get into the picture of art masters
Self portrait with Dorothy Caldwell
Self portrait with Virginia Woolf
Self portrait with Emily
Dickenson MOTHER ARTIST
Self portrait with Margaret Atwood.
Sorel Cohen Montreal
woman photographer. “An extended andcontinuous Metaphor” 1983-1986
A large format photo series for which she posed, painted, photographed
a series of herself in the role of artist mother housewife, in order to give
expression to the movement of the female body in its daily tasks and concurrent
role changes. By positing and
re-positioning herself in the work, Cohen examined the discursive intersections
of female body, art history, viewer’s gaze.
She questions not only the presentation of the female body in art, but
also the role of photography in art history.
millennium journal detail. the day depicted in original code here is january 11, 2001 |
I would like to do some artwork about our society and how it
is quite a jail. If one enters it young
and naïve.
graduates from school with the idea I can do anything,
and then
marries – we can go anywhere
and then has kids – we should settle during
school years and the dad works and mom stays home to look after the kids.
.......actually the only time that females can have a little space without
feeling guilty........yet.....
..still feel stupid when talking to people with jobs.
Because of that and because of a real need for double incomes in this world, women work at jobs, some do have fulfilling work, but some are artists who have to put that part of themselves aside.
Because of that and because of a real need for double incomes in this world, women work at jobs, some do have fulfilling work, but some are artists who have to put that part of themselves aside.
“I wish I had 3 days off a week” a friend said says to me in Chapters. Both of us are there on a
Sunday Christmas shopping. I was in
Sudbury because of Grace’s swimming class.
I wonder what some people would do with 3 days off.
What do I do? I ‘m
trying to be an artist but the only way to prove that is to exhibit or/and
sell. Just doing the artwork itself is
not enough.
That’s a hobby.
To find non-guilt time to create new work is
getting harder for me as my children leave – not easier. I find I have less time, not more, because I
am forced to work at a job, or produce exhibitions.
Dilemma – real guilt for not working in a
real job and therefore always questioning if artwork is worth the financial
sacrifice that kids and husband suffer.
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