Anyone who knows the work of Viramontes will recognise elements of it, but only
faint ones, the link being between the deceased fashion illustrator's famous red - and - black
drawing of an abstract
line of models for Halston in 1958.
When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are
faint chalk
lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times,
drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood.