Oil on wood, ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

Abundita (or Abundanita) was a Roman Goddess of abundance, overflow and
plenty. As a woman in 2021, particularly an obese (or plentiful) woman, it is
easy to have a complicated relationship with judgement. I am fine with myself
yet I am not. I'm inviting judgement by my community in exposing myself for
this self-portrait, but also challenging anyone who would stand in judgement
of me, and simultaneously judging myself because I've been taught to do so.
Judgement of what? My body, my weight, my life. Anything we get judged on
as women.
“Women are judged for choosing to have children or not have children, to have
children and go back to work, to have children and not go back to work, for
being too thin, too fat, too pushy, too unambitious, too hot, not hot enough or
even for just daring to be alive, therefore women have stressed that everyone
can go fuck themselves.” – The Mash Report, BBC.
Judge Abundita is both an invitation and a declaration. A simultaneous “I dare
you,“ and a “please don't hurt me.”