Compersion
Falling in Opening up and Milking Aftercare:
where the artwork is the process. you are not welcome to it. here are its selected documentations.
watch "compersion and just friends 2020-2021" on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/540430349
See the people standing there...who disagree and never win/ and wonder why they don't get through my door/ I'm painting the room in a colorful way/ And when my mind is wandering.../ there I will go 💦
You should already know this is not for you. It is 2021 and biracial people and couples are just as taboo as queers, pussy bleeding and abortion. Rampant abuse runs our every set and form of hierarchy in this capitalist rape culture we are indoctrinated into. You know the taste. DO NOT PICK at biracial people. Do not PICK at the queers. You’re complicit when it’s easy, an abuser yourself at worst and when on autopilot, its faithful victim. Shutting you down, silencing you, publicly shaming, violencing you, violating you, possessing you as its favorite obsession. Particularly you women, particularly gay, particularly the browner you are, you are told to SHUT the fuck-up. This work and this artist do not desire your censorship.
I welcome you to celebrate and be seen. I began the pandemic year of quarantine healing in my home, absolutely alone, from a month-long concussion in January suffered at the hands of a long-term partner. As I healed, I emerged back into 'The World,' only to soon quarantine alone, again, this time sick with Covid-19 in March. As a figure artist and survivor of too many forms of violence, as a woman, as a queer, as a life-long artist and practicing astrologer and healer of varying art forms--- I began to look to my accepted sanctuary. I invited only people I felt were trustworthy into my home after Summer 2020. I built small worlds for us to fall into. We would sing, cry, be naked. I would draw them. I built installations in which we unfurled together and I have been so kind as to share some selected figure drawings and photos of this sacred healing and joy. On this page and on my instagram, yes, I invite you to come into the buoyant cloud of visibility. FALL INTO THEM.
With a background in set building, years of dedicated animal-whispering (including professional grooming and the like), years of figure drawing experiences with many shades, sizes, textures and ages of varying bodies, I hold space and expand with those I trust. I question my safety. But still, as a personal guide, I allow my home and path to turn into a pod for shameless self promotion and radical community healing.
Your story is real and your existence proves it. With mirrors, chalk painting, and portrait series, I won’t edit what we live through together. I will share only and every that you let me. It’s okay to be violently happy. It’s okay to run around naked. Let's talk about it. I'd rather cry and keep trust than to dissociate and keep face. You don’t have to prove why you deserve your humanness and you don’t need permission to celebrate. You have permission to break the rules. We certainly know better than the one trying to pick. We certainly can recognize the abuse of forced false ideas from the truth of what we actively experience. What you already know and practice is that you are a creator.
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Listening to Khia, self portrait of artist, NOT FOR YOU (c) 2021
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