Women Bring the PeopleFrom the Artist I had been asked to contribute a photograph to an exhibition that addressed the issue of whether or not women who were poor had a right to bear children in this country. Soon after, I saw an interview of Abbey Lincoln in the New York Times where she discussed her music. When asked why she wrote lyrics about women, she said " women bring the people."These words stuck with me. Having and raising babies is work, it's labor that is not

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but I think that the artists’ book form is probably the most intimate and perhaps the most perfect form for presenting these concerns and having a dialog with another person

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we see color interwoven and mixed

or act of discovery through experimentation

movement from one state to another

mirror and faceless bather

and the Seattle skyline in the early 1950s

displacement

sugar cane cutters and fruit pickers