Oil painting (What We Found in the Placeless series)

Did you know that a blackhole is undetectable by man, until it collides with another blackhole and creates a ripple throughout the universe? and that the sun is just a continuous explosion which we can’t hear through the vacuum of space? and the moon was created from the body of earth following a traumatic event, forever tied to the Earth’s gravity?

 

“What We Found in the Placeless” documents my personal desires for liberation through space metaphors. Seen through Western myths, the cosmos is a scary and alien place, open for connquest; yet the cosmos’s infiniteness, fluidity, and complexity make it unconquerable. Here, I depict my body as an extension of cosmic bodies and phenomena as a reminder of my own infinite existence outside of social constructs– namely, gender binary, neuro-normalcy, and nationhood.