Monday, June 7, 2010

Is Pregnancy Offensive?

Tonight I was scheduled to hang artwork at a local cafe and was told I had to take a painting down because it might offend some people, specifically women and children. The painting, was not a nude painting, or portraying anything racist, religious nor political. It was a painting of me, pregnant. Now, really, who would find this offensive? -and why?
Sure, I was bearing my bare belly, but the rest of me was decent, and the composition is excellent, the technical quality good. I didn't argue with the owner of the business. Afterall, it is their place and if they don't like it, I have no argument. In fact, I was quite flattered at the idea that one of my paintings might offend people. Still, it leaves me to question exactly why pregnancy is at all offensive to a race of beings that rely on the event of pregnancy to exist.

Hm.

Friday, April 23, 2010

City of Loveland Transformations Project

I applied to the Loveland Transformations Project again this year. 15 artists will be selected to paint murals on the sides of transformer/electrical boxes around the city. I submitted these two proposal sketches that I conceived for this project and I'm not sure when I'll hear the results. I'd love to get into the public art domain and even if I'm not selected for this project I may offer a few free murals to businesses around the area to get my foot in the door, as they say.