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What is Woman
What is Woman
watercolor and gouache on cold-pressed paper
2023

This piece was made in collaboration with the writer, and my dear friend, Angelina Danae. She wrote the following essay and asked me to reply in visual form


What is woman that you are mindful of her? 
The daughter of all that you should care for her? 
For you made her little more than the cursed
hand with the cursed want to taste and see. 

You gave her no dominion, set nothing under her feet and yet 
the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and even the fish of the sea 
rush to lift her up, breath among stars, glory in the heavens. Still
she comes down to rest in the fox den,
drink from the rivers, 
listen to the wisdom of the trees. 

She is earth in her bowels, the whole of life 
heaving at her chest. All 
who look for her will find her. 
Around every turn, in every corner of the world,
she is there, all manner of holy 
beyond the imagination of men.

-Angelina Danae