Try to follow
in greater depth

the feminine presence
in art. In their turn,

women confirmed
good taste and power.

Portraits dressed wives,
daughters, mistresses —

paintings commissioned
by well-kept women themselves.

Despite working-class images
of the Ash Can School,

men preferred portrayals
of women presented as passive

inhabitants of interiors —
framed by their own shadows.

. . . . .

Poet: Susan Powers Bourne
Source: The Feminine Gaze
Process: Erasure, pick-mix