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My guest this week is the artist Diana Corvall.

Diana paints stunning and intimate gouache portraits of women who have been subjected to sexual harassment.

She began the series after the activist Toronto Burke began the Me Too Movement in 2015.

At first, Diana thought she would just talk to women in her direct social sphere.

She limited it to her friends and immediate family and asked if they had ever been subjected

to sexual harassment.

They had.

So Diana began painting portraits of these women and telling their stories, but to protect their

identities, she painted the portraits based on the historical tradition of the Lover's Eyes.

If you've never heard of the Lover's Eyes, I hadn't either. Lover's Eyes became popular in the late 1700s. They were small paintings. The portrait was, you had to know them pretty well.

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