Two of us [Kathryn S. Evers and Penelope Scambly Schott] used the same book as
inspiration, Dr. Miriam Stoppard’s Well Woman Healthcare. That someone would try to
censor anyone's right to read is most upsetting. This book isn’t about sex but about
health care… It is hard to understand why someone would mutilate it. The process of
painting this mixed media work was one of transition. I looked inside... the person had
taken an Exacto knife and cut deeper and deeper, over and over into an anatomical
drawing of a woman's pelvic muscles.. I wanted to represent colors of blood and
femaleness... red, peach, pink, and purple. The first words...because this is about
censoring words and images... the first words I put on onion skin were angry words... but
it didn't feel right...the second set were clinical words taken directly from the book... that
evolved into the words you see now that represent the transformation to the female... to
the particular... to this time... I think violence only begets violence... this is about
transforming fear, misunderstanding, violence into something female and healing...
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