Becoming
Exploring the journey of becoming...
Becoming 1
Acrylic on canvas (84x60cm)
2026
This piece evokes ideas of creation, memory, identity, and quiet resistance. The figure's face is presented as if wearing a monochrome mask - perhaps this is the mask forced onto them by society. However, the candles shield the figure and create a hushed, almost sacred atmosphere, enabling a safe space where rainbow hues can flow through the figure to the page, suggesting that writing is a beautiful act of becoming and revealing the self.
The use of a quill and the redundant ink pot sets the image in a bygone time, asking us to appreciate the history and historicity of queer writing, voices and people. Our voices, through writing, will carry across the ages.
I write in the in-between,
In the margins,
In the spaces you left blank.
I write the words they told me not to speak -
my name, my truth, my body, my love, my life.
I write because I refuse to disappear.
This is my story
in my own language.
Original: £850
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Paradise ≠ Happiness
Acrylic on canvas (40x30cm)
2024
It is a common conception that if we were to be in paradise, we would necessarily become happy. However, thinking that a beautiful environment will solve problems, comes from a perspective of externally-based fulfilment that can never be realised.
This piece depicts the idea that it is very possible to be in the depths of a personal hell, whilst physically being in a heaven.
An interesting corrective stance on this subject is voiced by Leighann Amanda who says, “The other day, someone accredited my happiness to the fact that I have been living in paradise. Paradise did not create my happiness, happiness created my paradise.”
Original: £400
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