2018 | Oil on wood panel | 48 x 96 inches

Some of your figures share a similar straight, expressionless gaze. How would you describe the mental state of these women? I imagine these women focusing and thinking. Facial expressions can really dominate a painting. I prefer a more ambiguous reading so the painting itself has room to become the expression. I’m often not sure what it is I want…

Sophia : You’ve had poems that use inanimate objects as a place from which to speak. Speaking as quotation marks in this poem seems to have a double tongue-in-cheek meaning – speaking from the thing that allows/signifies speech. Can you speak to that timeless human desire to speak, and how that has manifested in your life/work? Stephanie : Thanks…