Figurative, Imaginative
This collection is a variety of drawings from live models - with a little added exploration and imagination.
Cozy | 13x17 pastel | drawn from live model. Exploring the defiant state of being comfortable in a female body. The figure rests in the moon's light while the sun offers warmth and support rather than dominance. The subject's ease is radical — reclaiming pleasure in her own skin is resistance.
Rest
Exposed 28x24 | pastel | drawn from live model. Exploring the lived experience of shame and the fear of being seen. The figure stands on a pyre, a symbol of historical oppression — an echo of the witch burnings and the persecution of the feminine throughout history for being embodied and independent. And yet, she stays. She creates space for transformation. The pyre becomes a nest. There is rebirth. A soft, compassionate energy fills her — dissolving the shame with presence and love.
Queen Alice
Pink
Here Now | 28x24 pastel | drawn from live model. Daring to take up space and being present in one's body despite the lineage of learning to shrink and show up small and pretty. Hiding inside oneself and posing in the mirror doesn't make us safe; it makes us easy prey. This moment for the subject is feeling the release that comes with daring. It's both terrifying and glorious. It speaks to shedding old beliefs and inherited messages — ancestral warnings meant to keep us safe, that bind us with intended protection.
Between Worlds | 18x13 pastel | drawn from live model. The figure exists between worlds of imagination, nature, and spirit; the other of industry, structure, and control. The figure stands at the threshold, noticing both, belonging to herself. Her power rests in her ability to notice and witness within and without.