Labor of Materiality Painting

Published in "The Poetic Bond" Exhibits: Interworlding M.T. Burton Gallery Labor of Materiality dehumanization is man's favorite hobby stripping world down to its bare beating exposed heart creating more fetishizations to keep us bleeding The core of my personal battle Fighting off hands that have laid shame and doubt In a permanent structure Around my soul My confidence in my purpose must have somehow transferred over as “use me” My soft skin, delicate gaze, and provocative arches Must have somehow convinced you I was not able to consent I have never been deceptive in how I feel or what I want However, I have learned with my unfortunate exposure to sexual assault I am not a runner. I am able to speak. Even able to say no. But my legs, in a primitive statuesque manner, freeze Each limb a burden in time Wide awake Intimidated Insubstantial Still Doe eyed and objectified How many times can each body be the result of another's confusion Aggressive sexual impulses with no implications towards the actions They are choosing for you Bone-weary depletion This is not the only area where failures shines with glory in the Anthropocene But in my mind and in this body, Freedom from the constraints men have deliberately buried me underneath Is my uninvited passion It should be said though The mentality of the world The idea of it The structure around it All of it must change Racism, Classism, Sexism It must end These are the reasons for Earth’s early death These irreversible choices still being made are the examples The paths toward an abrupt and gruesome halt to life Soon there will not be gaps to fill or figure out Soon nothingness will truly mean nothing My dreams are filled with predetermined rain Breast milk poisoned with the toxins of it all I am desperately looking for a way out Where my freedom can flow can feel can exist without the partnership and suffocating reminders of past abuse I long for soil untouched by guilty hands As Someone Or something Or nothing With the entirety of everything lucidly An ideal state of femininity Where my navel is more than a hypnotic aphrodisiac And Earth is not man's slave

Multi-paneled Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:120 W x 72 H x 2 D in

Number of Panels:2

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