Consumption

Oil on Canvas
24 x 24 inches
2025

"Consumption" reimagines Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son, where Saturn is no longer a frenzied patriarch but a woman lying leisurely on a bed, with a seductive gaze outward as she consumes a man in his suit. The image is intimate yet unsettling, playing on the cultural anxiety that women might not only rival but surpass men. Traditional masculinity prizes autonomy and control, so the idea of being “consumed” by a woman can feel threatening, even if it’s not objectively exploitative. In this sense, “consumption” is less about what women actually do, and more about how men raised in patriarchal systems interpret women’s power — as if any shift away from male dominance must mean they’re being drained or devoured. Like Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes, this work echoes the reversal of power, but here the violence is transformed into an ambiguous, sensual act where attraction and dread blur, revealing how fragile patriarchal authority can appear when confronted with feminine strength.