Lindsay Carraway

Lindsay Carraway is an artist from Vicksburg, MS who has studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and SCAD in Savannah, GA eventually becoming a self-taught artist of eighteen years experience in painting and collage works. Focusing on women’s empowerment through the lens of schizophrenia, and bringing to life her own dreams and stories of superstitions, she hopes to uncover stereotypes, controversies, and the life of human spirit across world terrain and the abstractions of her mind.

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Much like life each day is a new opportunity to play in a new scene and each chapter in life—a new role. Women play many roles. Some to which help them. Some to comfort them. Some to protect them. All are necessary in the make up of where we wish to be and where society puts us.

The Virgin, the temptress, the friend, and the whore. A provider, a mother, caretaker, one with nature, a teacher and a saint. At every stage women are objectified and seen as sexual objects. To take that energy and absorb it and embrace it and to benefit from it is empowerment.

To own one’s strength and know value and worth. To know labels and chapters do not define a person, but make up the character of the story is the real ownership of power. It is about women embracing their bodies and showcasing what makes them special and powerful—both owning and taking ownership of who they are.

Lindsay Carraway, Vicksburg, Mississippi 2020