Annalee Davis
Second Spring, 2019
1 mixed media & ledger pages on paper | técnica mista & páginas contábeis em papel
2 mixed media on paper | técnica mista sobre papel
3 mixed media & ledger pages on paper | técnica mista & páginas do livro de contabilidade sobre papel
4 latex, ink & dry gold gouache on paper | látex, nanquim e guache ouro seco sobre papel
5 mixed media on paper | técnica mista sobre papel
6 mixed media on paper | técnica mista sobre papel
2 mixed media on paper | técnica mista sobre papel
3 mixed media & ledger pages on paper | técnica mista & páginas do livro de contabilidade sobre papel
4 latex, ink & dry gold gouache on paper | látex, nanquim e guache ouro seco sobre papel
5 mixed media on paper | técnica mista sobre papel
6 mixed media on paper | técnica mista sobre papel
152.4 x 91.44 cm
60 x 36 in
152.4 x 91.44 cm
60 x 36 in
121.92 x 91.44 cm
48 x 36 in
152.4 x 91.44 cm
60 x 36 in
91.44 x 152.4 cm
36 x 60 in
121.92 x 91.44 cm
48 x 36 in
60 x 36 in
152.4 x 91.44 cm
60 x 36 in
121.92 x 91.44 cm
48 x 36 in
152.4 x 91.44 cm
60 x 36 in
91.44 x 152.4 cm
36 x 60 in
121.92 x 91.44 cm
48 x 36 in
While on a Reed Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center in the Fall of 2019, the artist produced a group of six drawings collectively titled Second Spring, to elucidate the...
While on a Reed Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center in the Fall of 2019, the artist produced a group of six drawings collectively titled Second Spring, to elucidate the shifting interior terrains in the post-reproductive female body.
The “Second Spring” series contests these entrenched fictions through an authentic and personal chronicling inspired by encounters with wildness, thresholds, intuition and alignment to spirit. The drawings augment a remapping of this unfathomable biological mystery, countering the intransigence of prescribed femininity, revealing a woman’s body shifting on and off plantation ledger pages. The woman wears Motherwort and Queen Anne’s Lace (both the plant and crochet). Post-reproductive breasts sprout Queen Anne’s Lace as part of this profound metamorphosis. In one image, she holds a powerful, wild stance as a multi-breasted woman.
The “Second Spring” series contests these entrenched fictions through an authentic and personal chronicling inspired by encounters with wildness, thresholds, intuition and alignment to spirit. The drawings augment a remapping of this unfathomable biological mystery, countering the intransigence of prescribed femininity, revealing a woman’s body shifting on and off plantation ledger pages. The woman wears Motherwort and Queen Anne’s Lace (both the plant and crochet). Post-reproductive breasts sprout Queen Anne’s Lace as part of this profound metamorphosis. In one image, she holds a powerful, wild stance as a multi-breasted woman.