Nicole's Story Behind The Painting:
I'll tell the story of this painting with a poem I wrote, the same words also incorporated into the work itself.
I ache for the story I am yet to tell, a story of a young girl with bountiful joy bursting from her chest, and a head full of many dreams, for her imagination could spin endless imagery.
The sharp pounce, pain undulating and pulsing from my breastbone, derives its dagger-like feel from the shameful acts of a man I cannot fully, completely, recall.
How many little girls are there, ones like I was, who suffer such an ache without a word of it communicated, the shame turned inward due to silence?
- Framed: 9.5 x 11.5 in (24.13 x 29.21 cm)
- Subject Matter: portrait, wild woman, wild, freedom, trapped, speech, abuse, silence, my story, trauma, poetry
- Created: 2019-2022
- Collections: Love Letters to Mother Earth, Text-Based
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