Curiosity #7: Ghada Amer

"The history of art was written by men, in practice and in theory. Painting has a symbolic and dominant place inside this history, and in the twentieth century it became the major expression of masculinity, especially through abstraction. For me, the choice to be mainly a painter and to use the codes of abstract painting, as they have been defined historically, is not only an artistic challenge: its main meaning is occupying a territory that has been denied to women historically. I occupy this territory aesthetically and politically because I create materially abstract paintings, but I integrate in this male field a feminine universe: that of sewing and embroidery."

Ghada Amer, 2006

Curiosity #6: Sally Mann

“I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and the need to travel, between the varied and seductive paths of the heart."

~Sally Mann~

Curiosity #4: Ellen Rogers

Curiosity #3: Saint Vittoria

Body of Saint Vittoria, preserved in wax 

Santa Maria della Vittoria church

Rome, Italy 

Curiosity #2: Brooke Shaden

The Sharing Game