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Artist Statement
Women are powerful, beautiful, and excellent. My work encompasses my perception of life in its truest essence: RAW AND UNTAMED. My series “Project Revolution” is inspired by emotions many of them unmentioned or repressed. They reflect my pain and desperation which took toll on me for several years .Hopefully; my pain will speak through my canvases. I have been subjected to mental - emotional torture, suffering, oppression, and abuse. My images reflect sadness, worry, anger, and confusion. My abusive relationship with ex- husband is the issue that most occupied my mind and is expressed in written text. I was lost within for six years and needed my wounds to heal. When worries and anxieties seeped into my mind .I bundled them into tight balls and threw them into flames. This transformative process is at the core of my spiritual and artistic practice and the source of my healing.
My work also depicts the struggle of finding a place where I belong “IDENTITY -SEXUALITY" and "MOTHERHOOD".I sacrificed by hiding in a lie for several years. Fooling myself and became too weak to face myself. All my friends knew why I couldn't sleep at night and my family kept asking if I was alright. My secret disguised behind the lies and abuse. Many nights I cried away my pride with my eyes shut tight starring at my insides. All I wanted was to get rid of this "HELL" and find a place where I belonged. I let my lie take the best of me and became my own worse enemy. Until I escaped the darkness that was holding me tight and walked away, stepped out, found myself, and "CAME OUT”. Discovered that since the "Womb" I've loved "Wombyon" and I am a "LESBIAN".A lesbian with two beautiful, intelligent children but it's been an ongoing struggle. The sheer volume of work that motherhood takes and the demands on me .I thank god for my children but often sink into the memories and dreams of my former life without them and question why me? Motherhood leaves me craving peace and freedom and wanting to detach myself from my children to gain the opportunity to attend to my own needs. Living for 15 minutes as myself is hard because your needs are always balanced against those of your children and I'm always losing. That's when I become outraged with the level of self sacrifice required of mothers (SINGLE MOTHERS). Working long hours is utterly punishing and then coming home to two small children. Mothers give themselves to their children and end up thinking and behaving in ways their not proud of because of the "INTENSE, FRUSTRATION, IRRITATION and DESPAIR of juggling so many roles.....and trying to be the BEST.
Women are powerful, beautiful, and excellent. My work encompasses my perception of life in its truest essence: RAW AND UNTAMED. My series “Project Revolution” is inspired by emotions many of them unmentioned or repressed. They reflect my pain and desperation which took toll on me for several years .Hopefully; my pain will speak through my canvases. I have been subjected to mental - emotional torture, suffering, oppression, and abuse. My images reflect sadness, worry, anger, and confusion. My abusive relationship with ex- husband is the issue that most occupied my mind and is expressed in written text. I was lost within for six years and needed my wounds to heal. When worries and anxieties seeped into my mind .I bundled them into tight balls and threw them into flames. This transformative process is at the core of my spiritual and artistic practice and the source of my healing.
My work also depicts the struggle of finding a place where I belong “IDENTITY -SEXUALITY" and "MOTHERHOOD".I sacrificed by hiding in a lie for several years. Fooling myself and became too weak to face myself. All my friends knew why I couldn't sleep at night and my family kept asking if I was alright. My secret disguised behind the lies and abuse. Many nights I cried away my pride with my eyes shut tight starring at my insides. All I wanted was to get rid of this "HELL" and find a place where I belonged. I let my lie take the best of me and became my own worse enemy. Until I escaped the darkness that was holding me tight and walked away, stepped out, found myself, and "CAME OUT”. Discovered that since the "Womb" I've loved "Wombyon" and I am a "LESBIAN".A lesbian with two beautiful, intelligent children but it's been an ongoing struggle. The sheer volume of work that motherhood takes and the demands on me .I thank god for my children but often sink into the memories and dreams of my former life without them and question why me? Motherhood leaves me craving peace and freedom and wanting to detach myself from my children to gain the opportunity to attend to my own needs. Living for 15 minutes as myself is hard because your needs are always balanced against those of your children and I'm always losing. That's when I become outraged with the level of self sacrifice required of mothers (SINGLE MOTHERS). Working long hours is utterly punishing and then coming home to two small children. Mothers give themselves to their children and end up thinking and behaving in ways their not proud of because of the "INTENSE, FRUSTRATION, IRRITATION and DESPAIR of juggling so many roles.....and trying to be the BEST.
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