Hunting Party is a work that features figures doing things. They are feeling, contorting their faces and bodies, wanting things to the degree that they are straining, grabbing, and plotting against each other. The performance of femininity is often meant to be done with a veneer of ease. This veneer obscures from view the discomfort and denial of self that can sometimes swirl underneath the surface. It can feel as if this performance demands a tranquil self-cannibalization. In this work, tranquility and veneers are set aside, allowing a view into the eddy of discomfort that femininity can produce, heightened when womanhood is not desired by the subject.
