Artist Statement - Bondage series

In 1970 the Women's Movement gave us the vocabulary to express what we experience. This new raw energy freed me to use the iconography of bondage pornography as my feminist statement on the religious, political, social and cultural subjugation of women.

The subject is about power/powerlessness not sex.

The first in this series is Rosey Crucifiction (sic), a play on the title of a trilogy by Henry Miller.

Sadly, these images are still as relevant today as they were almost a half century ago. The sex slave trade still flourishes across Asia and the United States. Girls as young as ten are bought and sold. Genital mutilation is still endemic in Africa, and is widely practiced in Egypt.

Politicians and religious zealots still control women's rights to control our own bodies.

The news media report extreme cases of domestic violence and murder, while untold cases of terror stay behind closed doors.

Millions of women are still in bondage.