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Due Unto

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     Due Unto is a sequential series of etchings based on the lives of women in the sex industry, prostitutes, massage parlor employs and dancers. The series is based on the lives and reflections of women I have know and of writings of women I have never met. The prints are exhibited on individual shelves so that the audience looks down on them. They rest in a horizontal position against the gallery wall. Included in the series are portraits of four pregnant prostitutes. Under each portrait is a fragment of a dialogue.

  1. I decided to become a prostitute at 19; why give it away for dinner and drinks.
  2. Yes, even my stepfather…
  3. I can't make this kind of money for my kids in an office
  4. Yea girlfriend! and watch out for the boss.

     In gold engraved lettering on plaques above the horizontally exhibited prints is this statement: If a man sell my body its called porno and protected by the first amendment if I sell my body its prostitution and jail.

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