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I felt white hot anger reading about the incredible women in this book. I started furiously writing down their names as I read. I wanted to see their faces. How had I not known about these badass women? And as I learned about them (sometimes having just heard of them for the first time and sometimes gaining a new appreciation for their contribution to their field) I decided I wanted to draw them and share their story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/570d2f497da24fc38ab9dd35/66267a58-ba20-416e-8706-cfe33f8246bb/WomenJayneGold_IllustrationbyBreeReetz.jpg Blog - The Postmistress Of Paris & Other Influential Women - Make it stand out Illustration of Mary Jayne Gold by Bree Reetz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/570d2f497da24fc38ab9dd35/9177c303-58c2-4530-846a-ea38e3db11c7/IMG_3452.jpg Blog - The Postmistress Of Paris & Other Influential Women - So I made a plan. In the front part of my journal, the first 25 pages or so have a different layout and I like to use this area for fleshing out my ideas for personal projects. Because they’re located in the front of the book, they’re easy to find and reference later. I wanted to share this example because one of the things I’ve learned in my own practice is that having a few projects outlined means that I don’t wait for inspiration to get to work and that inspiration finds me working. Having a to-draw list, allows me to show up and focus on my practice without getting hung up on big questions or lost in inspiration rabbit holes. Do I always draw from a list or for a specific project? No. Illustration is my personal practice and I find that I get the most joy out of my practice if I don’t force myself to be too rigid or results focused either. But I do owe a lot of my consistency, growth, and evolution as an artist to little personal projects like this. 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We would come back many years later to find it still standing, the trees were taller now and so were we. But with no one else there to claim it, it still felt like ours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/570d2f497da24fc38ab9dd35/1642537995135-SWDD0KVRTPYZLZ8KODJQ/Cabin.jpg Illustration - Prairie Cabin We set out on a road trip to explore abandoned houses across the Midwest. We looked out into endless fields in search of houses with peeling paint, surrounded by tall grass that licked at them like a high tide. Driving along gravel roads with the windows down and the wind blowing in our hair. 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We would come back many years later to find it still standing, the trees were taller now and so were we. But with no one else there to claim it, it still felt like ours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/570d2f497da24fc38ab9dd35/1642537995135-SWDD0KVRTPYZLZ8KODJQ/Cabin.jpg Disappearing Memories - Prairie Cabin (Copy) Prairie Cabin We set out on a road trip to explore abandoned houses across the Midwest. We looked out into endless fields in search of houses with peeling paint, surrounded by tall grass that licked at them like a high tide. Driving along gravel roads with the windows down and the wind blowing in our hair. We listened to music, we read to each other, we talked, and we enjoyed the kind of comfortable silence you find between two friends whose lives have been woven tightly together for a long time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/570d2f497da24fc38ab9dd35/1642537838904-HU1XPOU7SXMCI2RYQAEX/sunsethomeontheprarie.jpg Disappearing Memories - Sunset On The Prarie (Copy) Sunset On The Prarie I’ve always felt that abandoned houses are fascinating and beautiful. Time and decay chip away the edges of something that was once called a home for a lifetime or more. And even when all the windows are left open and broken, the whispers of these stories cling to whatever is left inside. My imagination dances with the ghosts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/570d2f497da24fc38ab9dd35/1642538722524-A8H6IYAIOAVLIDZ64YPT/window.jpg Disappearing Memories - A Window In Time (Copy) A Window In Time Abandoned houses are dark, especially after the sun goes down. During the time that I was doing a lot of abandoned house exploration - I did not have a camera that could handle low light situations. So most of the pictures I captured at the time were blurry and unusable. So instead of showing you a picture, I draw on these memories to translate the feeling of being there into a work of art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/570d2f497da24fc38ab9dd35/1642537976650-9WZX4Y5M16J4UT2ZPVQ7/EmptyChair.jpg Disappearing Memories - Searching For Treasure (Copy) Searching For Treasure Although abandoned, most places I visited were never completely empty. Looking through the items that were left behind was part of what I found appealing about exploring abandoned houses. It’s easy to associate elements of a narrative with a disparate collection of things. In rare cases I felt as though I had stumbled upon a real life I-spy, searching for the treasures amidst the detritus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/570d2f497da24fc38ab9dd35/1642538003657-QHZAGENJSNP80S3L4F0P/attic.jpg Disappearing Memories - Sunlight In The Attic (Copy) Sunlight In The Attic Abandoned houses blur the boundaries between the outside and the inside. And as you explore, you have the distinct sensation of being watched. Perhaps this house is not really abandoned after all. Because, now that the humans have gone, there are creatures lurking inside - they’ve built nests in the walls, in the corners. The sun streams in through holes worn by time in the ceilings, and you can catch glimpses of the leaves fluttering outside. The attic feels more like a tree fort, no wonder the birds feel at home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/570d2f497da24fc38ab9dd35/1642537950578-NPSTSZQUDBUNQK7EPMCI/HarvestMoon.jpg Disappearing Memories - Entropy And Decay (Copy) Entropy And Decay And even if there were no clues left behind about the former occupants of a dwelling, there was still a lot for me to see. Entropy and decay inflict their own kind of beauty on commonplace things. 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Her voice was clear and strong in the face of extreme intimidation. Her reporting covered the horrific practice of lynching, incidents of racial segregation, and inequality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/570d2f497da24fc38ab9dd35/1642306685324-N0I4C20AAQ3OBYPA18SB/WomenHannahhoch.jpg Influential Women - Hannah Höch (Copy) Hannah Höch Hannah is known as one of the originators of collage. With her feminist photomontages she explored gender and identity, with much of her work focused on androgyny, political discourse, and the shifting of gender roles. Her desire to use art to disrupt and unsettle the norms was consistent. In fact it was her criticism of constructed gender roles that distinguished her work from that of her contemporaries in the dada period. Contemporaries, mainly men, who thought of her as merely a charming amateur. Thankfully, her work was later uncovered and is now recognized for what it is, a significant contribution to the German avant-garde that continues to reverberate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/570d2f497da24fc38ab9dd35/1642306676524-X0QCWEOCUO0FQ3PX0410/ConstanceKoppIllustrationbyBreeReetz.jpg Influential Women - Constance Kopp (Copy) Constance Kopp When an automobile plowed into Constance’s buggy (turning it into a pile of splinters) she did what anyone would expect, she requested to be compensated for the damages. When the notorious silk factory owner (who drove the automobile into her car) refused to pay up, Constance was not deterred. Despite the man’s use of intimidating tactics including threatening letters and strangers with guns - Constance’s persistence paid off and eventually she was repaid what she was owed. Through this ordeal, Constance found herself possessed of a certain strength of mind, body, and spirit. This same grit made her well suited for the career that she would pioneer. America’s first female Sherif. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/570d2f497da24fc38ab9dd35/1642306671788-K1NVKJXLUCRVU7NE0X6E/Annie+Oakley.jpg Influential Women - Annie Oakley (Copy) Annie Oakley “Little Sure Shot” Annie, was trapping at 7 years old and hunting with a gun at age 8 to support her widowed mother and siblings through poverty. At 15, Annie won a shooting match with sharp-shooter, Frank Butler, whom she married a year later. They joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West together and Annie kept her audience on the edge of their seat with her gun - easily hitting a dime tossed into the air or a cigarette from her husband’s lips. President McKinley made the mistake of rejecting her offer of “a woman sharpshooter service” for the war. Annie went on to teach more than 15,000 women how to use a gun, influencing not only the image of the American cowgirl, but empowering women with the opportunity to prove themselves every bit as capable as men. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/570d2f497da24fc38ab9dd35/1642306669699-5BZIUUHT5POWNMQ2BOJD/Bessie+Stringfield.jpg Influential Women - Bessie B. Stringfield (Copy) Bessie B. Stringfield Bessie taught herself how to ride a motorcycle at 16 years of age. At the time, motorcycles weren’t common and female riders were rare. By the time she was 19, Bessie was confident as a rider and took a solo trip across the United Sates. This made her the first African-American woman to ride a motorcycle across the US on her own. Which was no small feat, because as a Black woman she was faced with with consistent racism. Including initially being relentlessly harassed by local Police in her new Miami home, forbidding her to ride. Of course she wasn’t going to let that stop her, she was an exceptionally couragous woman. In fact, her legacy as “The Motorcycle Queen of Miami” continues to inspire riders to this day. 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She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win twice for two different sciences. She conducted her research in Paris and was the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris. Marie discovered two chemical elements, polonium and radium. She set in motion the first studies where radioactive isotopes where used in the treatment of neoplasms. And although she never received any formal recognition for it from the French government, during World War 1, Marie developed mobile radiography units or “petites Curies” and it’s estimated that more than a million wounded soldiers were treated with her X-ray units. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/570d2f497da24fc38ab9dd35/1642306683445-Q1TM0I1IJEBVULXG9EF3/Nettie+Stevens.jpg Influential Women - Nettie Stevens (Copy) Nettie Stevens Nettie’s research provided critical evidence for chromosomal theories of inheritance and expanded the fields of genetics, cytology, and embryology. Her scientific accomplishments are now inseparably incorporated into the big picture. She is known for illuminating the significance of the (Y) chromosome in sex determination. While others were pursuing the idea that sex determination was the result of environmental factors, Nettie was carefully watching mealworms. Which, she noted, produced two kind of sperm. Each type of sperm possessed a different chromosome, which fertilization would reveal, produced two different results in the sex of offspring. The truth was right in front of the eyes, but it took Nettie to see it, test it, and make it history - although the credit was often misplaced along the way. 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