The Eras Reimagined project has been an ongoing pursuit for many years. With the advances in Artificial Intelligence, image building and editing and social media such as Instagram, there was finally a place/process for the project to form a style and viewership. This project is simple yet political due to the nature of the suggestions about happiness, peace, power and the self. At the very root of everything you see here, I was envisioning a world without the fear we have always lived with. There is no calculating danger lurking in any of the shadows. These places, these women and these journeys are in the absence of violence, misogyny and assault.
To put it very simply, I am reimagining our eras in a world where women were safe to live, travel and decide freely.
What is expressed in these digital images are the scenes, the moments in which we lived full adventurous lives, without any social restraints whatsoever. No rules placed upon us, no domination and no control. These are pictures from our history in that alternative reality where we were free from the start. Every option open to us, whether to create a large family home or spend a life alone at sea. We own our own journeys.
Through Eras Reimagined we are travelling through history, major moments and quiet privacy of women who do not understand the concept of 'defiance' as it was never a part of their lives. Same earth, same climate, same measurements of time, but what would we have done differently? What would be completely different if our characteristics were welcomed and celebrated rather than diminished? Eras Reimagined is about us and the world we could have had.
Please place yourself aboard the ships and imagine yourself present. Stand in the fields. Be in the forest late at night, be alone in the garden where no one is a danger to you and you are safe to exist in any space you like.
The advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality.
Feminism:
The absolute most basic description of the themes in many collections is that of women having an equal chance to age, progress and create through history. A place where women are not reflections but present and complete in their own right.
The image used on this blog post is most certainly recognizable to many art lovers. It must bear resemblance to Ophelia by John Everett Millais. This is a prime example of reimaging a women who doesn't kill herself because of Hamlet's actions, instead she ponders and reflects. She lives. She survives him.
Not all of the digital paintings are about women having equal opportunity to shape their world. AI and image editing have given room for play, and so many of the collections are just pure appreciation of specific art styles, created just to smile about. Wistful imaginings are now at our fingertips in 2024.
The recurrent concept underneath numerous collections.