More or less a
year ago, responding to an, awful YouTube with Mojarto, I claimed for women’s
rights in the world, stating that there was still a lot left to do.
Many abuses and
aggressions have since come to light. Women speak and men’s world starts to
shake. For someone like myself who has lived in world that is macho by nature
and who since the age of 7 has experienced a retrograde matriarchy of mother
and grandmother (since my father left with another woman) that is quite an
accomplishment.
That women have
to offer and give three times more is a known fact.
That women have
to convince under unequal conditions of equality is unheard of, but that women
have to suffer physical mistreatment like I had to with my first husband is
unacceptable. I would have needed the protection of a father I never had
because for my mother, nothing ever existed or exists, nobody as important as
her SON.
In my world,
the art world, women have also been pushed aside, have shard space with
children and husbands, searching for perfection in record time. During my life,
I have received few prizes and been tripped up lots of times. I was very timid,
and like any good artist very sensitive. I had a hard time overcoming all of
this. But there is worse mistreatment, the economic one, if a woman
professionally leaves everything for a man she is lost because she will depend
on him always.
The
computerized and cold world of today needs humanity, sensibility and most of
all being made aware of, like I as an artist will always defend as long as I
have the strength, values that I think are being lost, claiming respect from
the world with all that that includes. To do this I will need the sensibility
of other women, be they artists or not, because if we women fail in something,
it is in the little help we provide each other.
