For example, her character in another work, Twin Parts (at right), pictured in the process of building itself from spare body parts (or taking itself apart) seems engaged in a painterly process -- building an image to portray the self. (The construction of the art process).
- That construction metaphor also hints at the way we interact with one another and the commercial world
- The Man-eaters (series) with works such as The Reformers (2003) are not portraits of men and women consumed with self-loathing. Rather, they are Schutz's vision of a self-sufficient race -- they eat themselves, and rebuild themselves out of their own feces. The question is raised as to why do they need to rebuild themselves?
- For example, in The Autopsy of Michael Jackson (2005) while we all know of the artistic construction and reconstruction of the man himself, did his obsession over body image lead to construction or deconstruction. Timely piece.
- This theme of interaction and commercialization is a theme also put forward in her paintings of "Self-eaters."
AND no doubt, our focus today on Surgery . While critics don’t necessarily see as a central component to her work, there is a current of feminist criticism in Schutz's treatment of “our bodies and ourselves.”
What intrigues me most about this painting are it's psychological, sociological and socio-political / feminist perspective implications.
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