More existentialism... and art

We are our projects, says Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex ... Her words on women artists are challenging me to speak more loudly about my projects. Her words on women artists are becoming a new project..

"... what singularly defines the situation of woman is that being, like all humans, an autonomous freedom, she discovers and chooses herself in a world where men force her to assume herself as Other; an attempt is made to freeze her as an object and doom her to immanance."

Who is making me up?    acrylic on paper, Lynne Cameron, 2015

Who is making me up?    acrylic on paper, Lynne Cameron, 2015