Both of these gals are me and I guess when I'm with in the artmaking mode there is the confident one holding the java and the doubtful one looking over the shoulder.  I did this simple digital drawing in '94 using the mouse 'n my Mac  (way before the iMac and then the G4 laptop).   I loved using the drawing component on Appleworks back then. 

The next image is a digitally filtered self-portrait photo taken while I sat at a kitchen table in Bozeman, Montana in the winter of 1991, contemplating the end of my near 30 year marriage.  There was a blizzard that week and I was housebound after having fled the Bay Area, driving to the Happy Valley in Montana.  The silhouette feature casts a ghost like shadow, which pretty much summed up my persona.  That was a long time ago, but the java again in hand gave comfort.                                                                                                                           

There after, my sorrow turned to righteous indignation.  Battling to save my business from being "cooked" by my former husband,  I wore this turtleneck T-shirt to a board meeting.  Wearing this gave me courage and in other meetings, I used various forms of "power dressing" sorta like a hair shirt for guys?  Anyhow- the saying goes:

The Insolence of Women has Ruined many a Tyranny,Aristotle's Ethics tr. pdow .

In a subsequent Art Exhibit, I felt it necessary to honor women, myself included, for courageous battles fought and sometimes won.  I have an entire series of "Warrior Women" paintings that came after making this piece.  The women on the head of this work are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, leaders for the gathering for Women's Rights at Seneca Falls, New York in 1848.  These images are printed on simple cotton, and at the bottom it says:  Conclusion - Perfecting America.  (I wonder what these amazing women would think about a woman, Nancy Pelosi, being the Speaker of the House.)

Not to compare in any way my struggle with these iconic and brave women, but the art was made to say that there is a way to prevail.  I used a wooden embroidery hoop to circle and hold the body of the shirt.