FURIOUS

This is a small story about women rising up against the men who torment, suppress, and mistreat them and, having summoned help from the Greek Furies, take their revenge.

I took thrift store fashion dolls, undressed, painted, altered and sometimes masked them and created colorful sets where - as girls do with dolls - they could act out my fantasies.

The Furies, here painted black and wearing terrifying masks, were goddesses of revenge and retribution. In the Greek tragedy, The Eumenides, they pursue Orestes, who has killed his mother. He is tried by jury then acquitted by the female goddess Athena, “I vouch myself the champion of the man not the woman,” she says using the kind of Alice in Wonderland logic we have become accustomed to today.