Your fist full of thunder, knocking for a beat to lay a rhyme | the oppressors are confused, 2026
Oil on canvas
Through risk and through the uncontrollable body, I seek to expand our understanding of gender and to offer women, queer, transgender, and non-binary people a sense of bodily power and limitlessness. Here I see risk as a challenge to welcome rather than something to avoid. As I think about the homosexual narrative and that the most tiring thing about having a female body must be its association with everything that can happen. To bear risk and its proximity to violence in its mere existence. I think of terms like risk factors, risk groups or vulnerable groups and how ’risk’ encourages distancing and contributes to a fear of these groups. Risk as something to be avoided rather than a challenge to be welcomed. The very perception of threat arouses our defenses and prevents us from being touched by each other. The word risk itself has a negative connotation that can be linked to illness that establishes a distancing, a fear of marginalized groups, like homosexuals, immigrants, black, women and trans people. Something that leads us to become increasingly distant from each other. Embrace failure as a productive energy — a different way of engaging with the world that opens up boundless possibilities and allows us to reach our full potential. Identity emerges as a complex network of relationships, influences, and experiences that interact with one another, continuously shaping and reshaping the self over time.
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