Woman painter/subject
However the liberation is not only hers, it is ours too. Jana's feminine point of view on difficult feminine subjects is on its own a form of emancipation. It is one thing for a man to paint a woman masturbating, it is another for a woman to paint herself masturbating. Somewhere in that act is not only her liberation but any woman's who associates herself with the way that it is being interpreted. The pain of abortion, being cheated by a man, are 'exposed' without any prudery.