That's My Normal
"I win."
With No Problem
That's My NormalPainting (1) in the Normal Bodies series.
"I win."Painting (2) in the Normal Bodies series.
With No ProblemPainting (3) in the Normal Bodies Series.I think I knew from a very young age that I didn’t have the kind of body you find in a magazine or on television. I searched for it everywhere, desperate to find someone with just an ounce of importance that looked like me. I wanted to know that I could be important and appreciated and seen no matter what I looked like. I was forced to realize, however, that true representation of the female figure is hard to come by. We live in a world that minimizes and marginalizes bodies that stray from some arbitrary and antiquated perception of the ideal form. In an effort to heal the trauma that lives in my own body which therefore deems it imperfect, I decided to create a series of paintings that establishes a space for misrepresented and undervalued bodies that previously were stripped of a space such as this. I couldn’t find a place for myself, so I created one. In this series, I employed the use of oil paints and handwritten poetry to create unique abstraction. I used a limited color palette of burnt siena, titanium white and viridian hue, and I gathered inspiration from 1960s Italian artists like Mario Schifano and his use of geometric lines/shapes and figure illustration. I have never been someone to sketch a painting first, as I enjoy exploring the spontaneous side of art, and understanding what I am painting as I am painting it. I wrote the poetry first and then simply painted right over, allowing myself to feel every bit of it as my art came to life. My process is authentic and organic and real, just like the female bodies that deserve to be just as important as any other body- and that was my goal for this work. Young me would feel seen, and I hope others can feel seen just the same.
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