I've been preparing for a while and it's finally time: Today I launched my Kickstarter! I'll be posting the actual painting to Weasyl this evening, but in the mean time, you can check it out there. I'm using Kickstarter to sell prints of Holding Back Birds as well as other paintings from the last year.

It was a long journey for me to get to this painting, ‘Holding Back Birds’, and the result is a big personal milestone for me. I’ve wanted to express trans themes in my art for a long while now, but had been afraid to- I’ve been fortunate enough to avoid aggression in my daily life, and worried that putting these themes on the page would invite that. Thankfully, my friends and mentors encouraged me to do it anyway, and I’ve had nothing but enthusiastic and positive responses in return, from all sorts of people.

I want to create paintings which show different gender experiences and trans bodies the way the human figure has been shown in art– as aesthetically beautiful and self-realized. Society has a tendency to either revile or fetishize trans bodies, and I want to offer something else, to normalize what is just another way of being human. This painting is the start of that, for me.

If you aren’t looking for a print or are unable to just now, signal boosting and reblogging is always tremendously appreciated– I’m still an unknown artist and every little bit helps tremendously. Here are some other places you can find my work if you are so inclined to share: Instagram • Twitter • Tumblr • Facebook

Thank you so much, as always <3