The Child as Lady Torrance as Calamity Jane
Lady Torrance from The Fugitive Kind, painted to create a defiant presence – sitting in front of one of those photographers back-drops… The portrait, at it’s best charming and at worst kitsch, bears the intention to appear difficult to approach, breathing in, not out.
No distraction of time or place, no background or objects are left to distract from the middle-aged woman posing as her youthful self – filled with potential.
The Fugitive Kind: The episode of the Strangulated Ovary
From the Mop and Bucket series, this painting shows the haircutter and poetess, Jacq Aris, as Lady Torrence (Tennessee Williams Orpheus Descending).
These are panels of a series (as yet incomplete) of depictions of self, in character and/or ideas of self, or of imagined scenarios. Using my own repertoire of poses, expressions, accessories etc, but also, (in the schematic I’ve produced), pictures which build a narrative (memories and visions).
Baby Blue Bucket
Part hidden behind the mop, the weight of her post-natel state described in her resigned lean into the chair.
Based on Seven, (sins, colours etc.), to be shown in a row of seven pictures, (not columns). I am at the beginning of building a clear but mysterious language of some complexity. Visual Propositions…