The two images on this page are both of the same silkscreened piece, the first visible by day, the second being the ghostly image only visible in darkness due to being in clear, glow-in-the-dark ink. The concept was inspired by Katherine Gilje's Susanna and the Elders, Restored - X-Ray, in which Gilje recreated the renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi's Susanna and the Elders, but in such a way that when viewed under an x-ray a more straight-forwardly visceral and violent depiction of assault and anguish could be seen. While Gilje's piece was meant to comment on the history of sexual violence in classic art, my own piece was meant to comment on the implied violence against women and sexual undertones of the selkie myth. In the myth of the selkie, a fisherman would often steal the sealskin coat of the selkie woman, hide or burn it so that she could not return to the sea, and trap her as his wife this way. These tales always disturbed me in the casual, implicit hostility of a man to a woman's freedom of choice and ability to leave him. While the first image depicts a demure scene of the sealskin being removed, the glow-in-the-dark ink scene reveals the underlying grief and anger of the selkie woman I imagine.