12 Color Hand Pulled Screen Print
Coventry Rag 335 gsm.
30 x 40 inch Oversized Print
Signed and Numbered by POSE
Edition of 25
"I often am inspired from old romance comics, especially the pervasive, almost comical depictions of a damsel in distress, distraught and helpless without her love interest affirmation. This stereotype is so far from my experience and I've found it fertile ground to mine and explore in my work. As a man who was raised by incredibly strong women as my mother, grandmothers, aunties, cousins and mentors I was always acutely aware of of how much more crap they had to deal with, being a women in this world.
A couple years ago I came across a quick, bathing suit advertisement line drawing in the back of one of these comics and it really struck me, it was so refined and so complex. In this cheap little drawing I saw a stoic personality I could could identify with. I became obsessed with refining this simple graphic composition to express a more life-like universal mixture of strength, perseverance, unapologetic beauty, sass and grit. Though it has taken quite some since I started exploring this series, I'm really pleased to be offer "Betty", the largest scale and most refined, focused and limited edition Ive done to date."
-POSE
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