Honor Her

Sandy Curran 

50 x 31 inches

2019

ARTIST STATEMENT

She came down through history without a name, only an image, a symbol of the sacrifice and bravery of the women called suffragists. She sits alone in a cell, bombed by sympathizers who tried to release the women imprisoned for asking for the right to vote and asking to have a say in the country and the world they lived in. The bombs broke the glass in the window, but the prison bars withstood the blast. So, she sits, patient and determined in prison so that I, a hundred years later, can have a voice, can have an opinion that matters, and can vote.

Photo by the artist