Disappearing Into the Flesh Market VII

By Mary Stebbins Taitt

Artist’s statement: This painting, part of a series, is a resistance statement against the misuse of girls, boys, women, and others by flesh markets of prostitution, child pornography, and sex trafficking. The first painting in the series was a response in oils to an art installation by Tyree Guyton at Detroit’s Heidelberg Project using dolls and vacuum cleaners to represent violation. In this version, a shadow creeps over the disintegrating faces of the lost girls.

Mary Stebbins Taitt writes and paints and walks outside in the sun, wind, rain, and snow. She was chosen to be an artist in the Scattered Ecstasies program linking Detroit and Windsor during COVID-19. She has shown at galleries in the greater Detroit, Michigan, and Syracuse, New York, areas. Her artwork has been published in Third Wednesday, Vox Populi, and Mixitiini; on the online cover of Hopper Magazine; and in two books.

A note from Writers Resist

Thank you for reading! If you appreciate creative resistance and would like to support it, you can make a small, medium or large donation to Writers Resist from our Give a Sawbuck page.