Women's Health Tapestry

I am working on the seventh tapestry in my Women’s Equity series. I used to say it was the last in the series, but I don’t know if this series will ever be complete. The subject, Women’s Health, is one of the hardest of all to represent with a tapestry. I didn’t want to make it all about abortion and I didn’t want to back off too much either. What I tried to capture is how archaic it is that laws written by mostly men are still determining what we can do with our bodies. That is why I chose to make my model for this tapestry a painting by Titian done in the 16th century. In fact, there was a “don’t ask - don’t tell” policy about abortion in the 16th century. I fear that soon we will be worse off than Titian’s model was with her choices.