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.
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.