Description

"The Pill" discusses the intimate and personal experience of taking the "birth control pill." There are motifs of how it can change one's brain chemistry along with how the uterus functions. This work strives to emphasize everyone's different experience taking oral contraceptives.

This painting exhibits a young adult woman taking her morning birth control pill. The viewer is joining her in the intimate bathroom setting, despite being on the pill the viewer can see a box of pads implying she can still menstruate, the half empty pack of pills displaying the ritualistic aspect of taking the pill. All around her are motifs of brains, vulvas, uteruses, and chemical compounds of various sex hormones which are often found in the pill. The medium is oil paint on canvas and the edges of the canvas have side effect lists from various birth control packets glued on. Working on this piece I used a pallet of phthalo blue, rose red, lemon yellow, yellow ocher, and white. This limited pallet bring vibrant colors to my work. The motifs on the wall and shower curtains utilize extremely diluted paint to create a more blurry effect. The medium is oil paint on canvas and the edges of the canvas have side effect lists from various birth control packets glued on.