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“Rest for Her” is my themed art show/experience/popup that I plan to organize and execute sometime this year. The theme revolves around the concept of rest, as it pertains to women, and people who identify themselves as women. I plan to use artworks, temporary murals, some public murals photography, poetry and customized venue for a three day event in a restful space that will have performances and discussions. I am still in very initial stages of putting together a formal proposal, but this is the artwork that starts it all, and makes it real for me.
Here’s a poem about my very first artwork for the show. I had to paint a biological woman underpainting first and add some features to make it subtly male looking, in order to get a transwoman effect. Isn’t it weird that excluding trans artists, we don’t see transpeople in the art world? I hope this is one step towards normalizing transpeople in art, as they make quite beautiful subjects. The weight of the wood, the color of the person, clouds everything has significance, which I shall explain at the exhibit. Would love to hear your comments.
Title : In your Dreams
In your dreams
There are clouds.
Soft
fluffy
Non judgemental.
Your poking bones
And uncomfortable weight
Like the wood meant for
Crosses,
Seem to melt away.
And the clouds
Hold you.
Like you were never held
As a child, even.
Your feet are
Not needed here.
You don’t need to
Run away
From here
Like you always do.
Rest, my love.
Albeit for a little.
Rest from our
Assumptions.
Rest from the
Deafening clap
Of demanding
Your place.
Rest from the
Unreasonable demands
We ask of a woman.
We ask of a man.
Rest, my love.
For in your dreams
You are home.
And
You are a woman.
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