“The Feminist Avant-Garde and Surrealist art movements heavily influence this body of work. By creating centaur-women, I dissect the identity of horses and women in relation to both being’s power and prey-ness. Emphasizing the colour purple through oil paint as a symbol of the gender spectrum and the multiple truths of experiencing femininity in modernity, the work aims to be immersive through scale. Although academically derived from an existentialist, intersectional feminist lens, it is not an exhaustive or universal representation of womanhood. The mythological portraits are personal to my experiences as a white, Jewish, feminine, human. Key themes include: scopophilia, freedom, the gaze, myth, performance, authenticity, and distortion. Being ‘powerful prey’ is not exclusive to either horses or human women. My thesis invites the viewer to consider its visual language as an introduction to the duality or multiple truths of femininity in modernity – what should we do with it?”