Nicole's ceramic corsets are worth talking about first. At first glance they seem to be harmless decorative reminders of women's binding past. As I had my body alternated by the hard ceramic pieces that tied cutely together with pink ribbons, I realized that Nicole was identifying with woman's desperate quest to be “beautiful”. I did in deed looked beautiful in her blue corset with it's orange ribbons but I also could not breath. What an ingenious way to keep women's months shut. Every time I laugh or tried to express myself, sharp pains caused by lack of oxygen cut through my chest. I learned quickly to be quiet and not to talk much. Nicole told me that after awhile you got used to it. I thought quietly to myself what an dreadful reminder of how sad women were or maybe still are in this quest of "beauty".

Jason's work seem to piggy- tail on his wife's work. Nicole's husband light fixtures lacked inspiration. He combined ceramics with light which created a nice effect in the bar. It should be dually noted that he was the only male model of Nicole's corsets.

Albert Riddle's paintings also included the female figure in a more cubed formation than his daughter's pain-in-deucing corsets. He took upon himself to redefine Picasso's cubist paintings. He transforms female figures into cubist design and juxtapose the design to a more naturalist style. This contraction of styles creates an uneasy feeling about his paintings. The colors in his paintings were vibrate but there lack any texture. The compositions were also very frontal and contained little if any depth. His composition were repetitious lending little to the imagination.

My oil paintings were up as well. I had a collection of older paintings and more recent ones. All paintings deal with the female nude. The female figure is shown dancing or moving across the canvas plane. The earlier work is bright more abstract than the newer work. The newer work is directly relating to Flamenco dance and the strong role that women play in that dance. The powerful movement and forms of these women were in direct contrast to both Nicole and her father's work. My paintings are about empowering women sexuality where as Nicole's is about binding woman's power or as in Albert's cropping the female figure into cubes. Regardless of how you see the work, each artists offered a different way to relate to ever pressing roles of women's sexuality and power.