feminist art, sleeping maiden, anti-patriarchy art, cost of being female, woman's reproductive life, pregnancy, fertility, fertile woman, innocent girl, innocent maiden, innocent young woman, feminist painting, biological destiny, moon cycle

In Her Future When She Wakes

Acrylic 18″ x 24″  2016 A maiden in white floats sleeping in a twilight sky.  Above her dreaming and virginal form, moons wax and wane in succession, symbolizing the cycles of her upcoming three or four decades of fertility.  Beneath her mysterious objects grow from a mossy landscape.  On closer inspection we see that these…