Canvas Drawing #six-X-ate
Chalk pastel, gesso, charcoal on canvas
6' x 5'
2014-2015
About the work: Canvas Drawing #Six-x-Ate was begun at the Six X Ate Performance and Dinner series, curated and produced by the artist Casey Droege. The theme of the evening's event was "Fowl/Foul", so I planned to draw in response to an excerpted text from the feminist dictionary 'Womanwords: A Dictionary of Words about Women'. This book lists the hundreds of words women have been called during the past several centuries, many of which relate to both food and animal. The artist Susanne Slavick read this excerpt while I drew for five minutes before the gathered audience. I later finished this in my studio with more chalk pastel.