05 | THE WAGE GAP | Limited Edition Print

If women had a dollar for every time they were painted looking delicately away from the camera at literally nothing, we could close the wage gap ourselves uses humour to expose the long history of gendered representation in art. The line points to a familiar visual trope in which women appear passive, decorative, distant, and available for looking, rather than fully self-possessed subjects. It speaks to the persistence of the male gaze and the unequal conditions under which women have been depicted, valued, and circulated. By linking this image tradition to the wage gap, the work connects representation to material inequality, showing that aesthetics and power have never been separate.