Artist’s Project: New York Times Interventions, Voice and Speech Paintings

Abstract

In this artist’s statement, I discuss my political motivations for an ongoing series of interventions into New York Times coverage of recent political developments in the United States since the 2016 election. I root this practice of critical intervention in two major influences on my project, the writings of Virginia Woolf, in particular A Room of One’s Own (1929) and of Michel de Certeau’s The Practice of Everyday Life (1984); in my interest in representing women as filled with language; my interest in giving women voice, an access to speech; and my motivation in the necessity for breaking through political isolation and despair to create communities whether physical or virtual.