Fast forward a couple years when I heard of the Suffrage Show (with its focus on themes of suffrage, the fundamental right to vote in public, political elections, the benefits and limits of enfranchisement, civic engagement, and voting rights issues both past and present), I again felt drawn towards completing the piece.
I struggled with finding the right medium – my normal acrylic didn’t feel right. Doing something monotone in pencil or ink didn’t bring the emotion I wanted. Finding reference photos of the bodies in the right positions and giving the right expressions, finding the elements that made Lady Liberty and Lady Justice, and then combining the different pieces to be coherent. When everything came together it just felt like a sigh of relief that I was finally able to get the idea out of me.