Love and Lust
Love, lust, euphoria, danger. Visually it feels a struggle. A struggle for the man, or for the female? Perhaps both. Where is the power here, and where does gender and identity play a role in this scene? It is a snap-shot of a private moment, but nothing feels private about this. The image has old pencil marks and smudges, which gives a sense of the unsavoury and the unclean. So love and danger lie together here.
Reminds me of the pictures I used to draw in the back of my school textbooks and also the paintings and drawings that Claire Milbrath does!
Another side to your work Mary-Ann. Reminded me of Paula Rego’s drawings,
Very direct. No flinching.
https://www.wikiart.org/en/paula-rego/dog-woman-1994