Litter 2009

Rose Freymuth-Frazier created "Litter" with oils on what looks like a gessoed panel. I can imagine Rose, the artist, starting with that dark background, almost black, and slowly building up the figures with layers of thin glazes, like a kind of photographic process. The surface is so smooth it almost feels like she airbrushed it. I'm thinking about the concept of the modern day Madonna with her accoutrements for modern childbearing and rearing. The look on her face, too, is interesting, like a kind of resignation or pensiveness. It all suggests a conversation about art history, about the way painters have depicted the female form, and the realities of motherhood. It also makes me think about what is means to litter these days, in today's economy and world.