this first day after the election i am thinking the tipping point is not even close.
women need to uplift one another- feel each other within us- let that feeling fortify, instruct and lend hands.
this is true for all oppressed and stigmatized. our stigma- our breastplate. wear it proudly, for it is what the world sees when they look at us as much as it is our protection.
i have been making gorgets again- based on the stone gorgets made by the Yucchi tribe which revered the sun, pileated woodpeckers, and so forth. one of their clans was the opossum.
![opossum-gorget_edited](https://www.theartistbree.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/opossum-gorget_edited-2-1022x1024.jpg)
previously the gorgets i made were drawn. this one is a collage made from the photograph below- although i used Paint’s watercolor tool on the critters themselves. it reminds me of a quilt and i think of all the Kentucky women who use quilts as a form of community and symbol of family.
![14962802_10154713128994320_3955758932447801422_n](https://www.theartistbree.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/14962802_10154713128994320_3955758932447801422_n.jpg)
other recent art- since lately all i do is walk and draw it is the animals which seem to pique me..
![wood-duck-real](https://www.theartistbree.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wood-duck-real-1024x1024.jpg)
![img_7227](https://www.theartistbree.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_7227-765x1024.jpg)
![bobwhite-gorget](https://www.theartistbree.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Bobwhite-Gorget-1-1024x1024.jpg)
![img_7213](https://www.theartistbree.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_7213-765x1024.jpg)
![guinea-1_edited_edited](https://www.theartistbree.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/guinea-1_edited_edited-1024x1024.jpg)
![14980694_10154713133194320_4413739670524930747_n-2](https://www.theartistbree.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/14980694_10154713133194320_4413739670524930747_n-2.jpg)