8x6" on bright white watercolor paper.

I made this piece at the end of 2021 as a simple study of a skull, but like all my work, it quickly turned into more than that.

Fem Fairytale is a small visual commentary on the trope of dead women in media and how their deaths are used to further male characters in the story. Female bodies are not plot divides. I hope to explore this further in other pieces.

Read: Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin.