Fight Like a Girl

"Fight Like a Girl" (a collaborative diptych) - 20" x 34" x 1.75".  Mixed media on deep cradled wood panel.  Ready to hang (Sides are painted; no need to frame.  Hanging hardware attached.)  This piece was created by Trina Tarlton and Jen Jovan.  Available here.

I have walked this body to the rim of its ends
From there I have seen everything else
It was there I felt the flexing of the bicep
And the sudden swing of hips

The traffic island of the heart

A basilica of stone waiting for skin
I stood on the rims and carved the tree rings in

​ - Jenny Hval and Susanna, "I Have Walked This Body"

This is what happens when one artist dares another to push boundaries.  Things get, well, pushed.

Fight Like a Girl

Trina suggested a collaboration.  We had a general idea...but then blew that out of the pond and just let it run wild.  Between us, we have a lot of mutual history - spinal injury, baddassery, big love and big loss.  And art.  

So sending boards through the mail and painting on another person's work - whoa!  But we did it.  And it is something neither one of us would have independently dared to do.  We've redefined how to fight like a girl.  

Enjoy the video - turn up the volume, see what happens when artists collide.