This self portrait uses subconscious imagery and imagery from life experiences to explore the issue of female aging and sexuality and how that connects to female power. There ia an element of fear of this power both on the part of subject and viewer.
Women become more powerful as they age.
Our sexuality is defined by our own needs rather than the needs of others or for procreation. Our focus in life takes on a broader perspective and we are more at home in our selves. We become the Wise Woman. In American culture the aging woman is looked on as loosing her place in society. With the advent of feminism in the 1970's aging women have been reclaiming their identities as wise women.