Colossus, 2011

This series was inspired by the writing of Sylvia Plath. While these are not images of Plath herself, each persona is primarily built around central themes in her poetry of loss and paralysis. The characters that came out of this project were conflicted young women with tangled ruminations, trapped in simple demure settings and the repressive social mentality of the 1950's. These paintings are about women much bigger than the fatuous definitions imposed on them. They are, at once, expanding and in the process of imploding.