Mixed fibers, canvas fabric, paper mache, paint
2025
Photos by: Micke Muchilwa @mickiesfavouritethings
This is all about feeling. Raw, surreal, disorienting. Its about existing between worlds: feeling alien, both untethered and tethered, always trying to make sense of belonging. I resist the pressure to disappear. I celebrate weirdness, lead with love, and choose softness in a world that often demands hardness. That resistance, to me, is an act of courage. Weirdness, love, and softness are personal mantras. My sensitivity is my weakness and my greatest strength through feeling this all.
Through the embodied form of an Alebrije, I make space to visualize my felt experience and offer a reminder: we are deeply interconnected, even in silence. We are far more alike than we are different. I’m thinking about the many universal ways we’re made to feel alien in this fabricated human world.
We are all weird! My only hope is to get weirder, softer, sillier, to love harder and more fearlessly and to keep showing up. Take up space. You deserve to. Existence is resistance.