initial sketches
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My practice explores queerness, disability, and otherness through storytelling and visual world-building, using mythological creatures and cryptids as metaphors for marginalised identities. Building on my previous #rabiespride project, which embraced the monstrous as a site of pride and resistance, this year’s work examines how monsters reflect societal fears around transformation and non-normative identity. I see my own experience mirrored in these vilified figures, whose perceived danger or tragedy often echoes how difference is policed and pathologised.
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