Tezos

MOTHER NATURE

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Description

Ink on paper || 2012 This drawing was created in 2012, and it talks about exploitation. The exploitation of nature is here incorporated in a female form. Gaia. We see male figures trying desperately to grab her. At the same time, the peaceful semblance she has demonstrates that despite all efforts men will not prevail. Her luscious hair, just like mine acts as tentacles and spiderwebs and is what’s keeping her safe. A vibrant, strong, thick hair that has protected and served so many for so long. A hair that is rich. The same strong hair that I fought against my whole life and that now is one of my most beautiful features. This drawing talks about a certain moment in my life when I was unhappily married and feeling totally constrained. I had just arrived in London, I was young and was trying to figure out who was this new person I had become once I arrived. And this was before I even had the chance to investigate the people I had been with. Despite not having the academic lingo to describe it back then, I felt very vividly a constant resistance to this place. I felt robbed, abused, exploited and put down so constantly and after so many years of believing that, I finally decided to untangle those knots. My heart and mind were turned to Brazil, and the longer I spent away from my country, the closer I grew fond of it. The more Brazilian I have become. Nothing like seeing things from a different perspective. I started studying so much about our history and became so curious about the root of all that it became very difficult to separate the effect from the reasoning. Therefore, this drawing is also infused with disdain for our own ways with this planet and all that live on it. It talks about a desire to win individually instead of understanding that the communal goal is where we should head.

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primogenite