Toxic Masculinity

Toxic Masculinity

2022
Acrylic and pencil on cotton canvas
59 × 59 × 5 cm
RT4A2204
Courtesy of the artist


Toxic Masculinity began with forty-four messages: a photograph, nineteen memojis and twenty-five heart stickers. Assembled, they make one illustration; delivered to a phone, they arrive as forty-four notifications.

The self-portrait includes that difference. Affection can carry a demand for attention, and repetition can make the recipient’s time seem available to the sender. Painting lets me look at the pressure inside an image I had meant as affection.


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