"The Winter of our Discontent” is a solo exhibition in which I’m pairing paintings of the Log Lady from the David Lynch show “Twin Peaks,” with recordings of over 50 American women responding to J.D. Vance’s infamous “childless cat ladies” statements.

 

My Log Lady paintings feature a gamut of symbolism, including witchery, suffragism, Woody Guthrie's phrase "This machine kills fascists,” Ruth Bader Ginsberg's iconic collars, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

 

I compiled the women's submissions into one long continuous sound file (over 1.5 hours long), and visitors can listen to it by putting on headphones coming out of a log. They can "listen to the log," the way the Log Lady always entreated her fellow townspeople to.

Finally, there is a second log into which I cut some divots, and people can write down their thoughts about the show and "talk back to the log" by sticking their note inside one of the slots. 
 

 

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