The Drowned Woman

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Jeanette, a graduate student on scholarship and majoring in art history, arrives on the West Coast intending to be embraced by endless sunshine. She finds comfort in her studies and in her new apartment, drinking cheap Scotch and enjoying casual hookups.From her youth slowly emerges a many-veiled seductive dance that begins in the carnal and veers toward the reluctantly domestic, before ultimately descending, as they do, into the maternal. Fueled by anger alone, Jeanette plies her own orbit, determined to reclaim her life.With nods to the themes of Louis Bourgeois and others, The Drowned Woman similarly explores the tender and violent in art, and the survival instinct intrinsic to women demanding to do more than tread water.