2013
30x22
mixed media on paper
I can honestly say that Homer's Odyssey remains one of my favorite sagas.
Penelope is generally interpreted as a paragon of fidelity and domesticity, but I love her for her cunning ability to protect herself, even as a person with few rights and little power.
As you may recall, she buys some time by promising to choose one of the many unwelcome suitors who have descended upon her home to be her new husband as soon as she finishes weaving a shroud for her father-in -law.
Every day she works at her loom, and every night she secretly slips back and undoes her day's progress.
She does this for three years before they figure out what she has ben up to.
I find something powerful and poetic about that concept of weaving and unweaving the same thing for day after day to preserve yourself.
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