waterbabes of the early toome#

More mixed media pieces: acrylic, paper and fabric on hardboard. Apologies to the grander and legitimate abstract expressionists. They are a bit therapeutic and so were a tad like pulling teeth to finish off.

It's those nagging resentments and little pricks from the past that need addressing, as in one good theft deserves another and how stupid can nubile girls possibly be. I am convinced that hormones lobotomize the young and confirmation bias completes the slaughter. Makes you wonder when naïveté became the sin. But it did.

It was all a set up anyway; ask any miserable housewife from 1950s. The subsequent liberation and revolution still didn't get clear of the misogyny and now there's a resurgence. The internet is crawling with nastiness and the tech oligarchs seem to have embraced it with abandon.

Maybe there's just no getting away from the imbalance and the primate heritage. After all, male chimps treat the females like crap, even beat up their own mothers. They're male bonded, you see, focused more on their position in the hierarchy than anything else, just like the various power mongers in human society, the boys in finance, the tech oligarchs, the oil kings, etc. And we share so much DNA with chimps, scientists have laughingly suggested the only differences between us and them are cultural. I guess we do have the arts.