SECRETS

A tragic family secret pushed me onto my path as an artist.

When I was 22, I accidentally  discovered that the grandmother I had never met had just died in an insane asylum. Katherine had succumbed to postpartum depression after the birth of her third child and my grandfather, Casper, had committed her to the asylum for the rest of her life. In the era before the development of psychotropic drugs, a husband had the power to lock a difficult wife away.

This secret rippled out in many destructive ways over the next generations.

Looking back, I realize why I try to recognize misogyny and all the forms of hatred it takes.

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