📜 Caption :

A: jellyfish and immortality
B: succubus mood
C: bro? 😻

🪞 Reflection:

This image is a set of three. I was challenging myself to draw concepts faster and using a limited amount of techniques, hoping to create something complex.

The first image is a continuation of using a bright high contrast palette to portray pain. The subject is a vague bright yellow body with no real indication of gender, and the face purposefully of-screen. The real focus is on the gesture. The hands and their position, it is almost a universal fact that when one experiences pain the body instinctively cradles itself, in this case the subject’s stomach.

Pain transcends and is experienced in most bodies. I chose to use jellyfish symbolically to portray the sting one might feel when stung. I assume the pain is acute, stinging, leaving the apparition of nerve cells awakened that spreads. The experience was inspired by a moment in my early recovery period in which I was too eager to use the strength in my arms, a pain formed and with an unimaginable quickness and spread from my surgical site all along my torso.

The second image (not pictured) is that of a long haired person with a cocky expression. Their skin is a bright red to contrast the green hair, the chest is puffed out featuring scars below the nipples, commonly referred to by the trans-masc community as “top surgery scars”. The subject’s head is at a classic 3/4 tilt, eyes closed, chin down, almost bashful but the expression is clearly proud.

Around this time, I was beginning to calm down in terms of my anxiety and I as feeling a lot more pride in my trans identity I started to feel more confident in my physical form. I was a few months post-op and I had more or less recovered the strength and mobility in my upper body. I was feeling great and I wanted to inspire others to feel the same!

The last image (not pictured) is a bit of a forlorn in feeling. It depicts a person with their eyes closed, head tilted up, eyebrows and mouth are both positioned in a way to express sadness. There is an accompanying quotation bubble featuring a round and shiny “?”.

Being a live during this time felt like a roller-coaster. One moment I was reflecting my folly, the next I was prideful in a manic way, then a wave of sadness washed over me as I reflected the decisions which led me to the position I was in. I felt alone, sad, and tears came too easily. I was also dealing with a certain sadness around the fact that loving and caring were two wildly different things. The original caption read “bro? 😻 ” because I felt like an obsessive cat in love, and perhaps sad at the fact that I couldn’t provide but only be cared for.

🖼️ Availability:

Digital image only, NFT pending, Print pending

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