I was very struck by the intensity of the colors (colours) you use in your work,especially in the _Apple Segments, Blue Rivers, Purple Rivulets_:          http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v4/i3/g/gunsegaram2.html          piece.  I liked that one for the colors and its overall design.  My mother is a college art teacher, and she will sometimes have her students arrange and glue colored (coloured) pieces of paper as an exercise in balance and design.  _Apple Segments [Blue Rivers, Purple Rivulets_]:          http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v4/i3/g/gunsegaram2.html          made me think of that assignment. 

Two other pieces especially piqued my interest: the  _Cirrus Carcinoma_:          http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v3/i2/Art/saku1.shtml          and  _Breast_:          http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v3/i2/Art/saku2.shtml          .  I am an English major, so I am also very aware of words.  The title _Cirrus Carcinoma_          http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v3/i2/Art/saku1.shtml          caught my attention because "cirrus" is a type of cloud and "carcinoma," of course, is cancer;  the connection between nature and cancer--especially breast cancer--is one that a lot women are concerned about.  (Last year Chatham held the WASTE - Women Assessing the State of the Environment- conference in which they talked a lot about women's health issues.)  Often where nature is polluted and/or exploited, so are women's bodies.  The flower-like petals surrounding one of the breasts in  _Cirrus Carcinoma_:          http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v3/i2/Art/saku1.shtml          [the ORIGINAL painting _Cirrus Carcinoma_ was purchased by          Carol A. Reynolds, MD,          DIRECTLY from the fine artist, in 1998]          also made me think a lot about this nature-body connection. The image is also in red--a color (colour) very often associated with women's sexuality--and the implications of a flower (virginity) made me think this piece also spoke to certain sexual issues.  The parts of women's bodies that often become cancerous are also the parts most desired by men, who do quite a bit of polluting the earth.

The simple lines in _Breast _:          http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v3/i2/Art/saku2.shtml          seem to be saying (at least to me), "Here is a breast, pure and simple.  This is all it is, and there has been so much fuss made about it."  Of course, the signature of  Isaac Falconer also raises some questions for me.  It seems so layered and complicated-- the male name makes viewers wonder, "Is this breast being seen through the male gaze?"  A woman taking on a male persona [EDITOR'S NOTE:  Precisely no one "located" "here" suffers from gender dysphoria.  Please!] to address issues of women's bodies really makes me think (and that was your intent, after all).

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