Deb wrote: > And my take on the naked lady-Osama picture was different from what Joni described > herself, so go figure! My first impression was that Joni was depicting fundamentalism and sexual exploitation as >opposite faces of the same degradation.
Now that I have seen the actual painting I agree that there is a whole lot more going on in it. When she described it to me I envisioned more of a just-for-fun cartoon image. Couldn't have been more wrong - the painting is astounding on so many levels. > And the phrase "made redundant" -- in British English, that means "laid off," am I right? Still trying to figure it all out. Don't mean to tell tales out of school but since she did relate to the large audience at her tribute in Toronto (and also a big in the LA Times) the same things she related to me, maybe it is alright to pass this along. She and Donald were together on 9/11 clued to the TV set. Something or other happened and Donald ended up getting angry with her saying she was always "repeating herself." They broke up that day. So Joni was reeling from both events in that time period between 9/11 and the next few days creating those paintings. Maybe to work through it somehow with humor, she told herself she would create a new school of painting called "repetitism." You see that in the 9/11 paintings they are divided in half with the mirror image repeated upside down. "Repetitism" and also a metaphor for her world being "turned upside down." So the "made redundant" tatoo on the woman in the Bin Laden painting could have a lot of meanings - both broad and personal. In a sense, Joni, being found redundant by her love, was also "laid off" from her relationship that day. Always that duality thing....;-) Kakki
