The art world is a largely male dominated sphere, leading to women not being taken as seriously as they should be, and so the work aims to combat this by reclaiming images associated with domestic duties and reappropriating them into a bastardised form of femininity which is what gender norms all are in the end. Some of the key influences in the work include Azita Moradkhani and Jean Cocteau and their ability to provoke the viewer with such delicate yet striking imagery.
The work titled, ‘Bloody Mess’, consists of a surrealist figure of a ‘woman’ with a vulva in place of its head; the idea of taking the female figure and distorting it, creates these ‘grotesque figures’ which can disturb yet intrigue the viewer. ‘Bloody Mess’ is placed on a large white bed sheet and drawn using red ink to create a blood stain effect, it combines horror with femininity, creating an interesting contradiction which I enjoy. The sheet is suspended on a clothing line, which in turn also speaks to the pre-conceived notion of women being domestic ‘housewives..
