The Witch Drawings

These collages accompany the 46 stanzas of Elizabeth Willis’ poem, The Witch Willis, herself a descendant of one of the alleged witches, has written a luminous poem that combines folklore and observation into a celebration of women. Sylvia Federici says  “Bowen and Willis bring together images and text in alchemical combinations to remind us of our nearness to this abiding system of othering, persecution and extraction from the lives of women, the poor and socially non-conforming persons.”