Women and Ownership; Her Stories, 12 feet x 5 feet/ 144 x 60 inches
As I repeated the definition of ownership in my mind, I recognised that it sounded so familiar, it looked so familiar. I have read this through the narratives of history, where women were first properties to their fathers and kinsmen, then to their husbands and eventually to their slave owners. I am seeing this today as some despicable men butcher women simply because they opted to no longer be in relationships with them. I am constantly feeling the concept of being seen as property today, in 2021 as I have conversations with men and feel fear whenever I have to express my lack of interest in them. Who negotiated the terms of these contracts that disturb my existence as a woman daily ? And who signed it?
This body of work is a journal of women’s stories in Jamaica and across the world. The conclude of the work is that the quest to own land is connected to a deeper desire to own self in a world that has negotiated and agreed that we are properties to someone or something. These are their stories, well at least a few. My hope for this work is that women will be encouraged to tell their own stories, own them and start to create other stories where they negotiate the terms and condition.
As I repeated the definition of ownership in my mind, I recognised that it sounded so familiar, it looked so familiar. I have read this through the narratives of history, where women were first properties to their fathers and kinsmen, then to their husbands and eventually to their slave owners. I am seeing this today as some despicable men butcher women simply because they opted to no longer be in relationships with them. I am constantly feeling the concept of being seen as property today, in 2021 as I have conversations with men and feel fear whenever I have to express my lack of interest in them. Who negotiated the terms of these contracts that disturb my existence as a woman daily ? And who signed it?
This body of work is a journal of women’s stories in Jamaica and across the world. The conclude of the work is that the quest to own land is connected to a deeper desire to own self in a world that has negotiated and agreed that we are properties to someone or something. These are their stories, well at least a few. My hope for this work is that women will be encouraged to tell their own stories, own them and start to create other stories where they negotiate the terms and condition.
As I repeated the definition of ownership in my mind, I recognised that it sounded so familiar, it looked so familiar. I have read this through the narratives of history, where women were first properties to their fathers and kinsmen, then to their husbands and eventually to their slave owners. I am seeing this today as some despicable men butcher women simply because they opted to no longer be in relationships with them. I am constantly feeling the concept of being seen as property today, in 2021 as I have conversations with men and feel fear whenever I have to express my lack of interest in them. Who negotiated the terms of these contracts that disturb my existence as a woman daily ? And who signed it?
This body of work is a journal of women’s stories in Jamaica and across the world. The conclude of the work is that the quest to own land is connected to a deeper desire to own self in a world that has negotiated and agreed that we are properties to someone or something. These are their stories, well at least a few. My hope for this work is that women will be encouraged to tell their own stories, own them and start to create other stories where they negotiate the terms and condition.