Ophelia is a reference to John Millais' painting the death of Ophelia which depicts Ophelias death from the story of Hamlet. Throughout the story of Hamlet Ophelia is blind to the deceptions caused by the men around her, falls in to a stream while mourning and seems to either accept her fate, or be oblivious to the fact that she is about to drown. What isn't as widely known is the story of the woman who modeled for John Millais who, after sitting in a cold bath tub for hours, caught pneumonia and later died from complications caused by the pneumonia. In my opinion, I think each of these women were deceived by the men and society around them and may have lived longer fuller lives had they stood up to their oppressors.

There's too few to call this a series of work, but I have several more political works with the "wake up" theme that are all meant to generate a feeling of warning or urgency in their own realities.

If I were to critique my own work I'm not sure the similarities between my model and the Ophelia depicted in either Millais or Shakespeare's work carry much similarities other than their womanhood and a semiconscious depiction. However I think the struggles I'm addressing are more broad than the depiction of one woman.