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Libby carruth
(Formerly "Libby Krock") . . . . painter . sculptor . illustrator
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This is a piece I’ve recently returned to after some time. My dream is to create it at a heroic scale in bronze. I call it “Winds of Change”.
Abigail Scott Duniway is remembered as Oregon's "Mother of Equal Suffrage". In addition to fighting for, and winning, suffrage for women in Oregon, Idaho, and Washington, she also deserves recognition for the Married Women's Property Act which, when passed, gave Oregon women the right to own and control property.
“Less remembered, perhaps, is Duniway's extensive written legacy, including her weekly human-rights newspaper, The New Northwest, which she edited and published in Portland for sixteen years.” Abigail wrote the first novel commercially published in Oregon, in addition to over 20 other published works. "If we had been a man," she once wrote "we'd have had an editor's position and handsome salary at twenty-one". Her younger brother, Harvey Scott, was the chief editor and part owner of the Oregonian newspaper. He was also her staunchest opponent to women’s suffrage.
Here’s a concise account of Abigail Scott Duniway’s remarkable life: https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/abigail_scott_duniway/#.YECABxNKhds
I’m still playing with the scale and arrangement of the pages pouring from her heart and swirling around her. I’ve also been exploring different hand positions. While I like the ruffly quality to the papers in the first iteration, I wasn’t crazy about the passivity of her pose. I’d like to convey her determination and intention as she pulls on her jacket and sets her sights on her goal.