Fresh Cut (from the Father Gander Series), 2006
lithograph with chine colle
Edition of 30
15x19 in

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Vanity established commodity. Girls look in the mirror to asses their value and women support their assets. Enter the auction and make your bid. We abhor certain social ceremonies and plagiarize others. We veil ourselves to appear exposed. We arrive nude only to be published in a digital shroud.

We establish idealized femininity and incriminate the physical manifestation. The skinny girl is a proposed anorexic and the Byzantine-faced beauty is touted as a junkie. Dependency is more glamorous when the perpetrator is alluring. Poison is pretty and vices are intimate. Addiction arrives on a silver platter with tiny spoons. Depreciation is easier to approach when the scene is staged. Contemporary issues are much more captivating when the victim is portrayed as a model-esque woman. The blossom is scratching her stems. The butterfly discovers synthetic nectar.

Persephone ate red seeds and Ophelia drowned. The glass slipper shatters and cuts through the flesh. Bite into a lethal apple and a prince will come and kiss you from costumes. They show up in red lipstick and pink dresses asking for candy. They look in the mirror and establish a direction. They take the classic poses and make the standard faces. Girls