Adding orange/ playing with foreground and background to amplify the message in the work

The cultural issues that I am talking about in this work are complex and I wanted to communicate this in the composition of the rug. Women are pushed backwards so much culturally still, even when it comes to our own bodies. The title of the work, Precocious Menstruation, was chosen as a reference to how much stigma and misogyny still exists in the medical field. Precocious Menstruation refers to a young woman who would start her period before the medically determined normal age. How ridiculous that we would moralise such an organic experience that is totally beyond that girls control. To try and identify this in the work, I have decided to put bold lines around some of the elements that represent the male gaze, such as the orange you see here. I have also decided to fill in a section of the female bodies torso with the same colour as featured in the background; to suggest a kind of invisibility and repression, 

The background is a complicated pattern of linear sections, which again is representative of the male, and this starkly contrasts with the flowing curves of the female form.

It feels good to see this piece coming together. I am kind of at the point where I hate it, but it has become a true labour of love and I am curious to see how it will look once its off the frame and processed.