Les Rêves Canadiens

Doctor Doctor helped me in my search for possible sexual abuse in my past. The painting also helped me to begin to understand abuse. By that I mean that we are all assaulted by society. Abuse is on billboards prompting men to higher levels of sexual activity, or with women being encouraged to not trust their bodies during child birth, or with Natives being encouraged to give up their traditions. I started with a photograph by Curtis of Hamatsa emerging from the woods, which is already endowed with its own sense of dramatics. I added to that by hinting at flames in the background to move energy up. I echoed that with the hands that seem to lick up the side of his body. He is smashing headlong into the green of the natural world, looking for salvation. His mouth is pink, inviting us into its deep hole while we are violated by the great unknown. Sexual abuse is violent. It is often blindly confused with pleasure and can rob people of the ability to understand love.
Oil 40"X30". Completed Fall 1991. $1000.00 Can. unframed.
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