THE ROMANTICS collection
for the ones who’ve been broken but still continue to see light, have hope, and always dream; the ones who believe in people and the world more than they should.
IN THIS COLLECTION:
“HOME IS WHERE THE MUSIC IS”
MIXED MEDIA COLLAGE ON CANVAS
16×20in
for the music lovers; a story [mostly] 2×2 inches at a time about connecting to music so much that the songs start to feel like home.
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300 CDN
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“GOLDENROD”
MIXED MEDIA ON RAW CANVAS
12x12in
what started as a piece about resilience, growing, and thriving on your own through harsh conditions [chaos] turned into a very cheesy love story about how doing ~all of this might be easier, could be far more fun, and you might even go further and do even more things with a partner-in-crime. life is very simply about who you share it with, after all.
[on life with a soulmate and best friend, romantic or platonic, and knowing how to see that something when it’s right in front of you]
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400 CDN
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“THE WAY WE OUGHT TO LIVE”
ACRYLIC ON RAW, UNSTRETCHED CANVAS
11.5x12in, 18x18in frame
about doing things in the name of love and still believing in all forms of love even when it feels like it’s a crime to. is this the key to some sort of revolution?
based on the text I wrote about a year prior: “the beating heart is the only sign we’re alive and I think that says a lot about how we ought to live.”
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300 CDN
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“MAYBE ONE DAY”
ACRYLIC ON UPCYCLED, VERY WELL USED CANVAS
15x19in
an illustrated story about inclusion, or lack thereof, in society far and wide. those of us who are outcasts for whatever reason might hear “it’s okay to be different” or “it’s your superpower!” by well-meaning folks but then as soon as we act in a way that they don’t like or behaviour is inconvenient, we are told “not like that.”
this piece celebrates the ones who live on the outside looking in with the magic 8 ball, maybe, offering a hopeful answer for the future.
inspired by a poem i wrote once
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200 CDN
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BONUS STORY TO THE ABOVE WORK:
i painted the entire back of the canvas before signing it.
painting the back could be seen as a waste of time and uncommon by most. since i have painted on this canvas six different times after thrifting the canvas from a secondhand store with another painting on it, this canvas is like a black cat that’s on one of its last of nine lives and was starting to look like it.
efforts to be more sustainable and buying secondhand are often less convenient and more time consuming and don’t follow traditional art norms… but if this is wrong, then i don’t want to be right, and i could say the same about being ‘different’ in any other way.
“TRANSPARENT”
ACRYLIC AND OIL PASTEL ON UPCYCLED CANVAS
20x27.5in
When wearing your heart on your sleeve is not enough, you turn your body inside out to let your heart be even easier to see; you aim to show the world exactly who you are. In a world where secrecy and privacy feel luxurious and where most interactions stay on the surface, being transparent is a courageous act and a rare quality.
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500 CDN
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“WE ARE ALIVE… OR ARE WE?"
MIXED MEDIA ON UPCYCLED CANVAS
16x24in
on life and death; if we’re alive why don’t we feel like it? we go through the motions every day, we save for a future we may not see, and we long for adventures that remind us we are alive but seldom do.
Would you rather live five more years of feeling the most alive or fifty more years of feeling as if you’re already dead? when we live as though we’re alive, death is not a thing to fear but inevitable.
being fully alive is not about having no bad days and making reckless and irrational decisions but rather about making each day acceptable as what could be a final day.
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350 CDN
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“FIRE INSIDE”
MIXED MEDIA ON UPCYCLED CANVAS IN WOOD FRAME
11x14in
a collage representing passion, particularly from a feminist perspective.
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150 CDN [SOLD]
