hehe thank you!! 🫶

This piece was inspired by vintage mourning/funeral cards and processional banners. It’s made entirely of lokta paper.

Sometimes when we lose someone or something we fear doing any of that again, because what if we lose it again? I simply refuse to live in fear of loss and pain. I want the possibility of loss and pain to make me kinder and love harder, always.

Yes, death/endings/heartbreaks are extremely painful, dark, and difficult to get through. That’s not what death positivity is about. It’s about accepting the experience and being present in it fully, and not sweeping it under the rug when it’s over.

My work in death studies and the death positivity movement has helped me radically break open and experience loss and pain to their fullest.

My first few heartbreaks broke me down. But after the first few, I learned to let every heartbreak I’ve experienced (from romance, friends, the world, death, even breaking my own heart) to break me open.

Anyway hope a whole church isn’t praying for me and my coworker now that’s cringe

dude then had the audacity to try to flirt with me and told me 3 times in the span of 1 minute that he just sold research to nasa for $25k…?

This was made with altars and shrines on the mind, the place we go to lay it all bare and ask something bigger than us the questions. But the divinity is also in the questions themselves and the human drive to search for an answer, even if there isn’t one. ♱

The question of ‘how do I prove I exist?’ goes hand in hand with ‘why do I make art?’ for me. The questions answer eachother, and yet I still keep asking and exploring this divine drive to create anything and everything that I feel incomplete and aimless when not indulging.