A tribute to four generations of women living in silence, to what this way of life meant to these women, and to the endurance necessary to live in a culture where male chauvinism had been handed down for centuries.
My mother was born and raised in southern Spain, and my grandmothers in Morocco. The machismo present in both cultures runs deep and it was the stuff of everyday life for these women, inside and out of the home.Their stories have always resonated with me and are what inspired me to wrestle with portraying the irrationality of this patriarchal society.Through these paintings I attempted for their voices to be heard, presence to be felt, and the footprints their existence left behind to be acknowledged.Also to serve as a reminder that male chauvinism still is pervasive in many cultures and as awareness that we as wo
