“What She Carried” was a final work within a series about the female experience. There is hidden text throughout the work of headlines about femicide, the rate of missing girls per year, and common phrases said towards girls about their own safety. The glitter on the bag is done to hold the attention away from these hidden messages. The use of self defense within women's lives should not be normalized for the sake of men's tolerated violence.
This work adheres to the theme as it works in advocation and awareness around women safety and the normalized violence towards them. It works to show the audience the juxtaposition between what we consider and expect of women with the items within the bag and the reality of what it is like to exist in society. @4izy_paints
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