Flow

This art is about the joy and pain of navigating my menstruation for the last forty years. It is also about honoring the end of my "flow" in its various iterations. Though our menstrual periods are an immensely integral, sacred part of our lives -- eliciting a monthly myriad of private emotions, thoughts, and actions -- politics, commercialism, advertising, religious attitudes, and the medical community have all weighed in heavily dictating what is proper, normal, and acceptable about our “monthly cycles.” While these public forces have gained momentum in our culture-at-large, "Flow" recognizes all the women who privately and courageously assimilate with their own bodies month after month, year after year, and seeks to uplift those who struggle with any multitude of uterine battles.

Healing Blanket: Flow (An Ode to 40 years of Menstruation)

Watercolor pencils, colored pencils, paint pens, micron pens on watecolor paper

9x 12

Healing Blanket: FLOW (An Ode to 40 years of Menstruation)

Watercolor pencils, colored pencils, ink, graphite on watercolor paper

9 x 12