This series explores the resilience, power, and struggle of women who have shaped history and continue to define our future. Each piece centers on a woman—myself, my young daughter, Jane Doe (a nod to the countless unnamed women throughout history), and figures like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Shirley Chisholm, Lady Justice, and the Statue of Liberty. They stand as symbols of justice, leadership, and resistance in a world that often seeks to suppress, control, or erase them.
Nature weaves through these works, both as a metaphor for power and a reflection of the forces that shape women’s roles in society. The honeycomb—an emblem of structure, collaboration, and unstoppable force—sprawls across the compositions, growing and expanding like a movement too strong to be contained. Its interlocking cells symbolize the collective strength of women, the resilience built through shared struggles, and the ability to create and sustain life, both literally and metaphorically.
Layered into the backgrounds are Xerox transfers of toxic flowers, referencing vintage wallpaper—a nod to how women have historically been expected to exist in the background, decorative but unheard. These flowers, delicate yet poisonous, mirror the tension between beauty and danger, between being overlooked and being a force of reckoning. The repetition of these images speaks to how oppressive expectations have been copied and reinforced over generations, yet just as nature adapts and resists, so do women.
The works themselves are arranged in a sequence that mimics a heartbeat—growing, peaking, and returning—mirroring the relentless pulse of resistance, survival, and change. A thin, unbroken line connects them, an invisible thread of shared experience that binds past, present, and future together.
This body of work stands as both a reflection and a warning—an acknowledgment of the battles fought and a testament to the power of women when they refuse to be confined.