In terms of methods, I used critical design practice to draw out key analogical motifs to agitate the issues normalised in the original narratives. These motifs intentionally functioned as prompts and provocations to allow myself, my participants and you my passing public to ideate around the entanglement of gender and power, and as a way to foster more emotional, socio-political, self-aware responses.

The first set of motifs are formal ‘made’ images created by Donna, the second set (below) is an array of visual research / associations that emerged for Donna as she worked with these texts.

There is no right way or order to view these, though they are ordered by the folklore that instigated these images/responses. My hope is that you feel your own tug of association where an idea, a meaning might come to the surface.

  • Hidden /Asunder

    … … …

  • Grabbing hands, grab all they can.

    Damned if you do?

  • Root-bound

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  • Watery ends.

    ‘The death […] of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world’. Edgar Allan Poe, Philosophy of Composition in 1846