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This work lives in the space between beauty and consequence. What’s embedded here is not victory, but aftermath. Shock has already passed. What remains is acceptance, not peace, not relief, but an understanding that something irreversible has happened. Time has stopped at the exact moment where fear gives way to clarity.
The sword reads as a symbol of judgement, power, and decision - historically wielded by institutions, by systems, by forces that rarely have to live with the damage they have caused. But the use of color makes it gentle. That contrast speaks to how violence is often aestheticized, softened, justified, especially when it happens to women and girls, who are expected to quietly endure. This portrait shows what it means to be cut down, but still visible. The face hasn’t been erased. She remembers.
48” tall, 22” wide
This work lives in the space between beauty and consequence. What’s embedded here is not victory, but aftermath. Shock has already passed. What remains is acceptance, not peace, not relief, but an understanding that something irreversible has happened. Time has stopped at the exact moment where fear gives way to clarity.
The sword reads as a symbol of judgement, power, and decision - historically wielded by institutions, by systems, by forces that rarely have to live with the damage they have caused. But the use of color makes it gentle. That contrast speaks to how violence is often aestheticized, softened, justified, especially when it happens to women and girls, who are expected to quietly endure. This portrait shows what it means to be cut down, but still visible. The face hasn’t been erased. She remembers.
48” tall, 22” wide