Artist statement and image description: my artwork is a multimedia collage on a square black and glitter-glued canvas. in the center of the canvas, there is a black picture frame with a black-and-white and high-contrast shoulder-up photograph of a white queer and mad person (myself) inside of it. six strips of silver paper are glued to the glass of the picture frame around my body. around the framed photograph, various materials have been glued across the canvas. these materials include mirror shards, purple junior advils (painkillers), snippets of poetry (from my high school journal), old lenses, and abstract lines drawn in shiny purple and dull pink lipstick. the poetry snippets include the following messages: “i have learned that anger is the silent killer,” “but some of us—we’d rather listen to the loudness of life even if it means sometimes you have to sit in silence,” “i want to be at peace,” “i used to think that hearts broke they don’t hearts shatter like glass,” “i love myself but Iidon’t make any sense,” “the apocalypse is not the end of the world it is the end of humanity,” “but when the cycle’s broken that’s when i will see that a life beyond this madness is waiting there for me.”
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