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Formally these works are about line, movement, and speed. About a lack of preciousness - colors mixing together and getting dark and muddy.

It’s sort of like in fairytales when midnight strikes and the masks come off - the artifice is lifted and everyone becomes who they really are. The monster is the thing that’s not socially acceptable or legible, that’s feared or taboo, but isn’t actually dangerous or bad.

There’s also something about the demonization of female sexuality sort of reclaiming itself, or making fun of itself. A favorite reference for these paintings Rupaul’s Drag Race when …