Apocalypse tapestry based on the Chinese play 竇娥冤/The Injustice of Dou’e, the story of a child bride who is wrongfully sentenced to death after she resists the advances of an abusive man (here symbolized by the stumbling mule), who retaliates by framing her for murder. At her execution she declares heaven will send proof of her innocence in the form of snow in june, a rain of blood, a three year drought…
This piece came about while meditating on the revenge fantasy — of heaven itself being on your side, of injustice redressed — as one of the survivor’s few and fleeting balms
16”x60”, gouache, acrylic, pencil, glass beads, embroidery thread, and grommets on unstretched linen
