Bloodletting

A rare bloodletting antique business card for CUPPERS & LEECHERS in Pittsburgh.

Hover

Images by Hellen Van Meene.

Bad Wolf

Images by Grandylion, see her photostream here.

Stain

Encrusted Lace, menstrual blood and glass beads on antique lace and silk

Cathedral Stained Window, fabric and menstrual blood

Jacquelyn Rixon's artist statement:

I incorporate notions of the visceral: blood-staining - the alluring body. Mine is a public show of things deemed impolite by my society. Menstruation is to be dealt with quietly still.

For years I have created with soap and hair, enthralled by the materials and their implications.I began to use my menstrual blood more recently, acknowledging that I entered my forties with menses intact, knowing I'll leave without them. My aim is always to produce work that is beautiful and enticing; to draw in the viewer before the materiality of the piece is revealed and a reaction provoked. This play of seduction and subsequent repulsion interests me greatly.

Hollywood Wings

Nero

Photographs by Juergen Teller.

The Patient

Images by Amber Marie Chavez, see her photostream here.