"Either/Or"

"You can be a muse or a model" they said.

"But I want to be a painter," I said.

"You're a woman," they said "That means muse or model...but if you're really lucky you might get to be both."

HUMPH!

Been carrying around this postcard from Cath Tate

cards ever since I lived in Oxford.

It always finds a place in my main studio, somewhere

and every now and then I stop and take a re-read.

©Judy Horacek

I always wonder why I feel that it still has to be this way..."either/or"

and rarely "and"... we haven't come as far along as we'd like to think we have

Mother/Whore

Wife/Mistress

Model/Muse

Grrrrrr!