Although the woman is mythical, this is still an image of power for women because the man is reliant on the woman for his rescue, in contrast to most rescues. Sigler's images are generally brightly colored and drawn in a na ve approach. This lithograph shows a flood with a single tree rising on an island in the middle of the image. Around the tree in the water are various household possessions and houses that are destroyed by the flood. This image demonstrates the emotions women who battle breast cancer deal with everyday.
Breast cancer overwhelms their lives, destroying all that is known and comfortable.
Like a flood, cancer is powerful and unrelenting, capable of destroying everything in its path. The pile of bones that are featured in this piece mock the assumption that skin color has an underlying difference in human nature. Rather, the belief that skin color affects an individual's bones is a false human construction. Bones of Color also includes the artist's horse, Cheyenne, as a distant observer and represents the artist in her work. Carrie Mae Weems is known for her work in conceptual photography.