Design Feast Series: Quotes

“I find it frustrating that if you’re female, whatever your work; people are going to ask how it relates to your female-ness. Every woman artist everywhere is always being talked about in the context of being a woman, whereas male artists are just talked about in the context of their work. That imbalance gets exhausting.

Then again, yeah, I want to make work about being a woman, and I think I’m probably mainly making work that will appeal to girls and women, and their experiences. I don’t mean to deny that being female influences my work. I think there’s a lot of darkness, a lot of struggle, a lot of pressure and weird shit that goes on with being a girl. I don’t ever want to draw blandly happy, sexy women. I want to draw tough women, sad women, violent women, vulnerable women, righteously joyful women. It is what it is.”

Kaye Blegvad, General Maker-of-Things