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Taking Up Space (2025)
Mixed Media: Canvas, Wood, Glass, Oil, 40” × 30”
Taking Up Space confronts the psychology of women taught to apologize for their presence. The figure is caught in the split-second of rupture — shattering her container with force.
In that instant, she claims a posture long reserved for men: unapologetic, expansive, certain of her right to exist. The breaking is not destruction but reclamation — the moment presence becomes undeniable.
This work confronts the quiet rules that have shaped women’s bodies and gestures, dictating how small they are meant to be. Here, guilt falls away. What remains is a body that takes up space without apology.
Her hair is carved from wood. Shards of glass, glued by hand piece by piece, form the barrier she breaks through. Wood and glass hold the memory of both confinement and its undoing — solid, sharp, and now transformed.
