I am pleased to share that I was chosen to participate in this 52 week long virtual exhibition through 2023 addressing the health care crisis since the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
Objects of Agency aims to stimulate, educate, and encourage abortion care. It aims to challenge the anti-abortion campaigns and false information which dominate the internet. It aims to provide access to factual information and ultimately to create a platform and a network to share the voices, choices, and stories of all women and female identifying persons.
Each week, Hera Gallery will choose one featured artist and artwork from the exhibition to represent the tribulations and inspirations of the current state of women’s health care in America. Featured artists will be posted on all social media accounts.
The following two images and poems (below each image) are included in this exhibition.
“En Route”:
I have labored hard
Using graceful implements
Of wood and steel
Keeping quiet every meal
With little bell to quell
The fury in my heart
Unseen unheard as I
Minced, was minced,
Chopped, was chopped
Till, cut from myself
See myself awake
To the power in my hand
An object of agency:
En Route to freedom.
“Never Again II”:
Never Again II
Mixed Media
16 x 12 x 4 in
Hallowed folds of being
Tender petals holding
The beginning of the world
Clawed to death
Mauled to death
By a rake that could
Be tilling fecund earth.