Tag: women

1. How It Started:

• This started from a Resistance call from Planned Parenthood.

2. How I Determined the Narrative Focus:

• I did a lot of research into current legal issues, laws, circumstances regarding female reproductive rights in the U.S.A. today. I also read the book Policing the Womb by Michele Goodwin.
• As I came upon a massive amount of information I had to narrow it down to what I wanted to express. For me, the piece had to be about resisting current governmental policies, legal decisions/actions, and definitely holding hospitals accountable for their part in the issues.
• As time went on for the next 3 months I determined the work would have the following aspects: Pregnant woman as center point, hospital that denied a woman critical care in California, a resist fist, the 9 star American flag, drones, and a title I was not clear on.
• So, the questions that came to mind were:
  • Do I go with what I felt was needed and be aggressive in my messaging, or do I play it safer and try to make this more marketable?
  • How do I push and advance myself with this?

 3. How it Became a Drawing:

• Pregnant Women= I had to sketch a woman in a new way that completely put the focal point on the baby she was carrying. She had to appear distressed.
• I took a picture of the Providence St. Joseph Catholic Hospital in Ca where they refused to help a woman and gave her a bucket and towels instead. I had to position it so it reflected that the woman was just denied care there as she stood lost out front.

• I wanted to add foreboding clouds in the background but I wanted to do them in a more abstract way. Purely representational.
• The American Flag with 9 stars would hold the word “RESIST” to highlight the need to not only resist what is happening, but so too the Confederate attitude Trump is pushing (9 star flag represents the 9 original states to secede).
• The drones would be my vision of where we are heading. The drones now monitor pregnant woman. Total loss of privacy and control.
• THE BANNER hanging from the building would also be a vision into the future where there are things I am forecasting to exist such as:
  • H.A.R.R.T = Hospital Against Reproductive Rights & Treatment
  • F.P.A. = Fetal Protection Agency

The rest of the text would be laws that exist or have been pushed that are pivotal laws restricting women’s rights to reproductive rights/choice.

4. 𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐕𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒:

a) Shattered glass cut style (over 1,000 cuts in one window)

b) 1/3 of block cut in my style “Free Cutting” (no drawing to guide me)

c) Stucco texture created through intentional pick-up cut style

d) New representational cloud style

5. 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗖𝘂𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗜 𝗮𝗺 𝗧𝗿𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗼𝗶𝗻:

– Chatter cut – hold handle looser and let blade chatter as it cuts

– Glancing cut – hold tight on handle, keep pressure light and barely touching the block, and quickly glance the blade across the block.

– Grazing cut – hold handle tight, very focused, set line depth light, and firmly cut.

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁: This RESIST print addresses current issues regarding women’s reproductive rights as well as my prediction of the future if we do not resist now. The woman is being forced to carry her pregnancy. Her every step is policed by drones. Her body criminalized. If we do not resist with like strength and fortitude, I predict a world where Hospitals will support H.A.R.R.T. & F.P.A. (Hospitals Against Reproductive Rights & Treatment and the Fertilization Protection Agency) where they refuse treatment and enforce Ca, Texas, and Louisiana bills such as SB 8, Act 548, HB 813, Trap Laws and more that force women to keep children against their will. We MUST RESIST now!!