the female enigma

Young Girl

The Marrying Kind

Outside the Club

On the Bus

In the Boudoir

Asleep

I have been doing some art work sketching out ideas about how we see women in so many different ways -

single mother
house wife
career woman
virgin
call girl
feminist ....

It was inspired by a scene in the production of Homer's 'The Odyssey', for which I have been designer and which will be hitting the stage next week:

http://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/show/?eventid=1409

The director (Rafaella Marcus) and her cast have taken the scene where Odysseus encounters the Sirens, as written in this adaptation by Mary Zimmerman, and produced a striking piece of physical theatre, painting through voice and movement the many faces of women, intertwining them to create one of mythology's most dangerous femme fatal symbols.

It got me thinking, is there a bit of femme fatal in every woman/is there a bit of every woman in the femme fatal? I would like to do a big visual project about the different faces of women, and women's perceptions of each other and their own identities, with other creative females ... more on this later (and ideas, comments, potential suggestions for collaberation are most welcome!), but in the meantime some of the sketches I came up with ...

I have been working on some music response stuff too, coming soon...