Traci Zaretzka
Traci Zaretzka
Registered: October 2008
Posts: 14
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My paintings began as investigations of nature – an exploration of the beauty of the organic shapes present in flowers, plants, and the natural environment.
An awakening in myself and my awakening to feminism drew me toward representations of the female form and a desire to incorporate the female body into my natural landscapes, as my own way of reclaiming the image of women from the traditional male representation of women in art.
Her Flower is a series of paintings in which I have intertwined the female form and nature, blurring the line between the female body/female sexuality and nature. My art connects the feminine and nature, shows the feminine in nature. My paintings counter the male (phallic) imagery that is so readily accepted, by defining their own feminine beauty.
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