Unknown Artist.

Series

Save Yourself (self-love self-portrait)

2013
Fibre-tips, coloured pencil and synthetic polymer paint on cotton paper
96.5 × 127 cm (38 × 50 in)

An illustration of self love aspirations playing with gendered scenarios such as Superman saving damsel-in-distress, Lois Lane. My superhero self rescues my naked self, embracing fluid interplays between empowerment, vulnerability, masculinity and femininity. Having willingly chosen to eat the fruit of (self) knowledge, we send a superhero(ine) signal to save yourself from heteronormative fantasies of romantic rescue.