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Days of the Week Paintings
(2007), 7 paintings embedded in one another and diminishing in scale
Ink on wood, dimensions variable (largest 54 x 54 inches)



Each painting represents a day of the week, and is intended to hang on the wall in a single spot, removing a painting to represent each day as necessary.

The image is a depiction of the Annunciation, when the angel Gabriel announces to the Virgin Mary that she is to conceive a divine child. In this version, that act is constituted as one of ex-post facto “non-consensual” sex with a minor, which in this day and age would be constituted as rape. The text scroll in each painting differs and is the sequential lyrics to the chorus of the Nirvana song Rape Me.