"Woman Revisited" by Anna Lipscomb
Polymer Clay
6”x 5” x 4”
Woman Revisited is a reimagining of a sculpture I first made over a decade ago. This new work reflects not only my growth as an artist, but a deeper, more complex understanding of womanhood, embodiment, and the politics of visibility. The original 2013 piece, Wo-man, featured the same arched posture but with intentional indented voids where breasts and genitals would be. Faceless and abstracted, it mirrored how I felt at the time: to be seen as a woman first and a person second; a prefix. Woman Revisited reclaims presence. The figure has a fully formed face, uneven breasts, and a visible vulva. Its four limbs appear as fingers rather than legs, suggesting bodily ambiguity and challenging fixed notions of gender, species, and form. Informed by posthumanist and feminist theory, this work resists categorization and embraces fluidity. It questions how bodies are read, how femininity is assigned, and how agency can be reclaimed through transformation rather than simplification.
Polymer Clay
6”x 5” x 4”
Woman Revisited is a reimagining of a sculpture I first made over a decade ago. This new work reflects not only my growth as an artist, but a deeper, more complex understanding of womanhood, embodiment, and the politics of visibility. The original 2013 piece, Wo-man, featured the same arched posture but with intentional indented voids where breasts and genitals would be. Faceless and abstracted, it mirrored how I felt at the time: to be seen as a woman first and a person second; a prefix. Woman Revisited reclaims presence. The figure has a fully formed face, uneven breasts, and a visible vulva. Its four limbs appear as fingers rather than legs, suggesting bodily ambiguity and challenging fixed notions of gender, species, and form. Informed by posthumanist and feminist theory, this work resists categorization and embraces fluidity. It questions how bodies are read, how femininity is assigned, and how agency can be reclaimed through transformation rather than simplification.
Polymer Clay
6”x 5” x 4”
Woman Revisited is a reimagining of a sculpture I first made over a decade ago. This new work reflects not only my growth as an artist, but a deeper, more complex understanding of womanhood, embodiment, and the politics of visibility. The original 2013 piece, Wo-man, featured the same arched posture but with intentional indented voids where breasts and genitals would be. Faceless and abstracted, it mirrored how I felt at the time: to be seen as a woman first and a person second; a prefix. Woman Revisited reclaims presence. The figure has a fully formed face, uneven breasts, and a visible vulva. Its four limbs appear as fingers rather than legs, suggesting bodily ambiguity and challenging fixed notions of gender, species, and form. Informed by posthumanist and feminist theory, this work resists categorization and embraces fluidity. It questions how bodies are read, how femininity is assigned, and how agency can be reclaimed through transformation rather than simplification.