ARTIST STATEMENT
This work is part of an on-going series which uses a photocopy of the face of a Bernini bust. Using this simple face allows for the female figure to be manipulated with media and surroundings into images of strength and beauty as well as positions of repression or confinement.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Donna Vorreyer creates and writes in the Chicago area where she hosts the online reading series A Hundred Pitchers of Honey and is co-founder/editor of Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters. She is the author of Unrivered (2025), To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), all from Sundress Publications. Her mixed media art has been featured on the cover of her book Unrivered as well as in North American Review, Waxwing, Thimble Literary Magazine, Pithead Chapel, The Boiler, and other journals.
© Donna Vorreyer