Rain, Nails and Adultery- Studio Day

I've been helping a buddy refinish his house, and he's been pulling out and saving these gorgeous pounded nails for me. I've been experimenting with them all day.

Nails make me think of many things, and today I've been thinking about them in connection with relationships. "I hammered her good," "Got to nail that down,"  "Nailed to a cross for her sins," it has all trailed back to the work I've been doing with my own explorations on how our society views female sexuality. 

Did you know that there are half a dozen patron saints for women who have been victims of adultery, and no saints available for adulterers, although St. Gangolf is the patron saint for husbands unhappily married. Interesting. 

St. Gangolf

According to Associated Press, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy who released a study in 2012, in 41% of marriages one or both spouses admit to infidelity, either physical or emotional, and 54% of women say the've committed adultery in any relationship they've had. 

So, I thought I'd make a very needed saint for all those people out there who have ever gone outside of a primary relationship to meet a need. Especially for us overlooked women, who don't even get our own patron saint if we're unhappily married. 

And, in a mild attempt at self portraiture-

Now if only the rain would die down I could bike home and call it a day. Although the sun shines gloriously through a couple times an hour-

What I'm listening to today-