Phenomenology: Self-portrait (IV)

This artwork will be represented by Young Soy Gallery from September 2024; queries may be directed directly to them

This is a self-portrait.

“To be born a woman has been to be born, within an allotted and confined space, into the keeping of men. The social presence of women has developed as a result of their ingenuity in living under such tutelage with such a limited space. But this has been at the cost of a woman’s self being split into two. A woman must continually watch herself” (John Berger)

“Yet before most self-portraits, because of the exclusive complicity existing between the eye observing and the returned gaze, we have a sense of something opaque, a sense of watching the drama of a double-bind which excludes us" (John Berger)

18 (h) x 24 (w) x 1.5 (d) inches, oil paint on primed stretched canvas