Victoria Pendragon
"Speak No Evil"
Mixed Media with
Collage on Panel
12"x12"
2014
My grandfather began my ‘training’ before I was one year old; I can’t speak for what happened with Debi because, although we were mostly together, we were drugged for much of what went on, (a delicious drink my grandmother made for us with lots of sugar and vanilla). He began his exploitation of us when I was around five.
The string is an allusion to having been treated like puppets. My grandfather pulled the strings, and we did as we were told or suffered the consequences. My string is now neatly wound and set aside but my sister has been a delusional, paranoid schizophrenic since the sixties, her mind unable to let go of the fear that men are after her and that drug dealers lurk around every corner.
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