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As a mixed-media artist living in Tkaronto, my confrontational work looks at themes of classicism, femininity, power, and environmentalism. Often using botanical scenes to dissect my own ideas of femininity, and the larger social impact that accompanies it. Recently, my research and experiences have led me to question frameworks of power and dominance. Power, in very simple terms, is a permeating control, dominance and influence. From how I have been exposed to it, power is a festering wound causing harm and suffering; it is the foundation for dominance and hierarchy. It permeates all facets of our social and cultural lives, and yet it is something rarely acknowledged. It is hidden but justified in the anthropocentrism of western ideals. Using the relationship between humans and nature, I am taking a feminist approach to the complacency within the binary system of power in western culture. Using rich botanical scenes and liminal, ephemeral forms, I aim to confront these ideas of powers, calling attention to the impact of this power-induced obstruction of empathy. The series features strong vibrant greens suspended in a surrealist plain, contrasting and contorting the liminal space between real and abstract.