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How does one balance personal joy while feeling outraged at the injustices spreading globally? This diptych focuses on the simultaneous attraction and repulsion to our carnal desires while existing in an ineptly run nation.


‘drained of desire’- initially titled ‘dripping in desire’ transformed both physically and thematically as I found myself unable to stop catastrophizing when reading the news in late 2025. Similarly, ‘VMH as ouroboros’ exists as a physical record of grief, built off my concurrent and conflicting feelings which stem from our nations rising political tension. 


I have no answer on how to exist properly right now; how to balance desire and disgust as I watch human rights flagrantly abused in high resolution, every day, every week. But I do know I must create, advocate, and educate.