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Diana Newton
The words of Yayoi Kusama speak directly to my approach: “Every time I have a problem, I have confronted it with the ax of art.” I feel driven to use art as a vehicle to promote awareness, spark dialogue, and encourage action in support of women and the LGBT communities whose basic rights are being curtailed in a severe conservative backlash.
My sister is a trans woman who now lives in fear of the phobic backlash taking place on the streets and in the legislatures towards transgender individuals. So I first took my artistic ax behind a video camera to create an award-winning documentary film, The Ties That Bind, (2017—now streaming on PBS NC), about my own family’s response to her gender transition.
With last year’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, I am swinging my ax on behalf of reproductive rights so that women have a chance to achieve genuine autonomy over their own bodies. I am creating an installation of three assembled sculptures—“The Three Sisters of Roe”—that will depict the fierce fire of women who will not surrender to attempts by social and political conservatives to control their bodies
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Artist Style: Visual: Assemblage, Political, Social Commentary, Symbolic