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Dayton, WA
$325.00
Title
Carrying Things
Artist
Steve Henderson
Medium
Drawing - Pen On Paper
Description
Throughout their lives, women carry things.
Depending upon their culture and where they live, they carry baskets, grocery bags, books, backpacks, brief cases, casserole dishes.
Some women carry the weight of the household, with all its attendant details – generating income, paying the bills, doing the taxes, making or purchasing clothes, changing the oil in the car, washing and folding laundry, shoveling snow.
And the most important “thing†that women carry, regardless of where technology leads us, is children.
At some point, a woman somewhere does this in the very literal sense: she carries a growing child within her for nine months in what should be, was designed to be, the safest place on earth. She is that child’s protector, advocate, defender, proponent – the word “mother,†as irreplaceable as the office it describes, is one of honor and dignity. Only in dystopian books like Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) or 1984 (George Orwell) does the word “mother†convey offense.
When the child is born, the woman continues to carry him or her tightly in her arms and close to her heart. (Sadly, in Western “modernized,†“civilization,†women are encouraged to carry children about in plastic containers, which are a poor substitute for the real thing, but then again, in the Western, modernized world, there are many poor substitutes for real things.)
The artwork, Carrying Things, celebrates the labor of love that women, through history, have carried. A series of drawings of indigenous women of the not-so-recent-past, the image features, front and center, a woman carrying her child on her back. The child, as is her entire family, is literally part of her life, and a most integral part. Within the Native American culture, family and tribal connections were strong and valued.
Carrying Things is a celebration of the human body and the human spirit – humanity itself. In the work these women did, and many still do – work many would call menial and insignificant – they carried the world on their shoulders.
And they didn’t drop it.
Featured on 13 Fine Art America groups, including FAA Portraits
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March 18th, 2021
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Port Orange, FL - United States
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Port Orange, FL - United States
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group ..... Please place your featured image in the Feature Archive and any other appropriate Archives l/f/p
Syracuse, NY - United States
As much as I love your drawing, Steve, I love your wife's essay description even more! As always, she has hit the nail on the head! Love this!
Centerton, AR - United States
Excellent work - really like where he selective white was added - kinda pointed to load they were carrying - also the description was well worth the time to read!
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