Illustrations
I am known for my unique hand-drawn illustrations and poetry fragments. My work always starts on paper with ink and watercolour, then I edit the colour and composition digitally. I draw from my emotions, and those of strangers online who’ve been sharing their complicated feelings with me since the 2010s Tumblr years. I specialize in mixed feelings, figurative & surreal shapes , delicate & harsh sentiments, pastel & vivid colours.
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The Tumblr Years (when it all began)
In 2011, I started a series of ambivalent drawings, which I worked on in hiding when I felt frustrated at my day job. Drawing became my own subversive act of resistance against my employers, the fashion industry and the patriarchal machine. Eventually, I created a tumblr site (ambivalentlyyours.tumblr.com) and began posting my drawings online.
Thanks to their meme-like quality, and their existence within a tumblrshpere that encourages easy sharing, a number my drawings were shared virally. As the drawings grew in popularity, an organic and unsolicited participation from online strangers (often anonymous contributors) inspired a new dimension to my work. Instead of simply sharing my images, people began requesting drawings based on their own personal struggles and feminist questions. In response, I began to illustrate the ambivalent feelings of my online followers, who in turn would share these images on their own blogs. Over the years I have created several hundreds of drawings in collaboration with strangers on the Internet. While like most, I am no longer as active on Tumblr, my page still exist and I still sometimes answer drawing request on Instagram.