Revisiting the context and theory of “the gaze” -- as did DaVinci, Vermeer, Manet, Klimt, Kahlo and many other artists in their own ways -- Rachel’s portrait imagery meets quintessentially. Her eye-sight is fixed and directed at you as her captive audience, while “castrating or penetrating” [Dyer, 1992], you as the beguiled viewer fixates on her high-caliber pulchritude. As if held hostage, her emotive longing mood reveals mysterious truths resonating from her dynamic essence.
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In August, 2020 Troubleweed bathing towel hitchhiked through the labors of artists, and found its resting place in Santa Rosa, California, where the towel found a home with mixed media artist, Peter Alan. Alas the story inevitably continues, though outside the parameters of surveillance the record of archives the traveling component of this work imposed ." Rachel Wolfe
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