Philemona Williamson
Inescapable Tangle, 2024
oil on canvas
60 x 48 in (152.4 x 121.9 cm)
Copyright The Artist
'We bend to the will of others, we twist and turn in order to please. We conform to the perceived norms and all the while we are left unsteady and...
"We bend to the will of others, we twist and turn in order to please. We conform to the perceived norms and all the while we are left unsteady and precariously vulnerable. We each have so many components working against and in tandem with each other. It can make the true person that we really are both very apparent and at the same time, very hidden and internal," said Philemona Williamson in discussion of "Inescapable Tangle."