I DON'T LOSE FAITH

This work responds to an environment that squeezes, pushes, and thins out possibilities. This is not a sick body — it is a body produced by scarcity. Economic, emotional, and material precarity translates into a tense anatomy. I seek to suggest that even in precarity, the body retains a minimal force that keeps it standing. For me, painting this way means refusing to beautify poverty, but also refusing to erase it.