"I chose representations for their embodiment of certain stereotypes: the angry, serious, bitter, modest, juvenile, etc." says the artist. "Using colour to bring out their particular flavour, I want to gently mock the figures' dandified seriousness."
"The absence of the woman artist is apparent, paralleling the experience of your average trip to a museum. The female subject is displaced, buried in the foliage, imbedded in the contours of a suit jacket, masquerading in an eccentric headdress. As a kind of counterpoint, the male subjects are given a fetishized treatment, the brushstroke glancing off their forms, rendering them transparent, ephemeral, and maybe erotic. There is a component of desire inherent in my will to identify with these figures. To have or to be, I can't make up my mind."
Artist's statement