This series began as a frustrated attempt to establish that a woman's body is entirely her own and it is her prerogative how she uses it.
Feeling powerless in light of the attack on our reproductive rights and the objectification that followed, I began drawing women who were fearlessly confident in their naked skin and who emanated an unassailable sense of empowerment.
Why are we so scared of the bold woman who takes what she wants? How do we remove stigma and shame and instead give space for women to fully lean into their truth and power?
Inspired by the powerful women in my life, ‘Femme Electric’ is intended to remind women of their own innate magic, and the magic of women everywhere.
It is a call for women to embrace the wild woman inside of them.
It is a refusal to subscribe to outdated archetypes and notions of femininity rooted in whiteness and purity.
The fluidity and vast spectrum of pleasure, experience, and femininity is of course impossible to express with a purely figure-centric approach . Women (however we might be packaged) and our desires, appetites, and perspectives are wonderfully different and should be honored as such.
What unites the electric women in my life is an ability to breathe vibrant life and warmth into the darkest of places. It is their strength, kindness, softness, depth and vulnerability. It is an electric energy that transcends gender or our physical bodies.
Women are incredible and we owe it to each other to empower and protect one another. Together we are an unstoppable force.