Canker Lips Painting

This piece is call “Canker Lips,” painted using oil medium on a 11”x14” stretched canvas. “Canker Lips” was the first in a series of my personal narrative, painted from a small iPhone selfie asked to be taken by the doctor to check for canker sores while I was being inspected for remaining shingles. I was inspired to paint the photograph off my phone because of this unique time in my life: I was constantly sick, undergoing anxiety attacks, in and out of doctors, and in an overall creative drought. After three years living in silence, I was left emotionally and physically hollow and drained. My goal is to tell viewers that it’s not ok to hide your fear of vulnerability in exchange for a reality of pain. From experience, it only leaves you deeply hollow with nothing left to give. The question remains: is your structure of resistance really making way for a path of enlightenment and freedom? The idea is to take the form of the subjective ugly into a qualified form of beauty.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:11 W x 14 H x 1.5 D in

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