Expectations

The feature of this acrylic painting is a nude "red" woman, tied with strings and pegs to the landscape around her, but alluding to the desire to pull this landscape down and reach beyond it. Meandering along her legs up to her torso are leaves, and the backdrop fabric presents a dark forest scene haunted by five undefined figures, all rendered in green. Framing this scene to the top and left of the painting is the unknown, represented as a field of black that gives way to tones of blue and purple. Typical for Dodson's works is the suggestion of different realities expressed as separate picture-planes superimposed over one another.