I drew �Kept Woman� for my humanities class in high school. Looking back, I�m very surprised that I didn�t get in trouble for turning in a drawing of a nude woman, but I guess times were different then. It was also in keeping with the spirit of the assignment, as we were asked to draw something in the style of Greek sculptures from the early Common Era. I used many examples of statues and sketches to get a feel for the proportions. I also based the stance on a picture of a statue, per the assignment. The statue seemed to be yearning for something, maybe its freedom from maintaining a pose for thousands of years. Initially, I only had the figure in the drawing. I added the bed, the askew walls and floor, and the barred window after the assignment had been graded. With that, �Kept Woman� was born.

On the back of �Kept Woman,� I included a poem as a caption for the sketch.