Donna Ferrato

(Waltham, Massachusetts, 1949 - )

Taryn Book - Praise Flagger, East Hampton, NY

2011

Archival Pigment Print

24 x 30 in. (61.0 x 76.2 cm)

Collection of the Akron Art Museum

Gift of Gift of Carmen Campanelli, Jr.

2019.15.15

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I met her in the Hamptons while directing a workshop of photographers learning how to photograph the real life for battered women. Immersions style. Taryn presets like a divine spirit. Articulate, Lean, Fierce. Her history of violence goes back to girlness. Nothing but sexual denigration. She is a mother of a teenage girl she wants to steer in the right direction. The last “good” man she believed in broke her legs and came close to choking her to death. She’s in hiding from him in the State of Georgia. She needs a hysterectomy. Without her husbands signature she has no chance. What kind of dark ages shit is this? Is any woman ok this this? Let’s talk about 4 all women protect +fight for our own Holy Spirits.