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“Defaced” (digital illustration | 15”x19” | @sareytales 2023). Swipe to read the convo that inspired the art. “Defaced” will be on display at this year’s @dirtyshowdetroit at @russellindustrialcenter in Detr Life Drawing: Fig. 2 (Life is Simple) // digital illustration, 11”x14”, 2023 @sareytales . Life Drawing classes were required in art school. I really didn’t love them, it was 90-120 minutes of intense observation and failed attempt “Dirty Haiku 3: Big Mouth” (sumi ink + water color + digital illustration, 11x14, 2020) ๐ŸŒบ๐Ÿ‘„๐Ÿ†๐Ÿ™ˆ๐ŸŒธ . The messages that inspired my “Dirty Haiku” series were sent to me by men whose unsolicited texts following the Japanese poet House Rule 3: Lie still and take it (digital illustration, 2019 @sareytales) The cruelty is the point. What’s going on now…well for decades, and centuries actually, but even more acutely now, with reproductive agency and the stripping Poem 3: Jesus. Guns. Rollerblading. (@sareytales 2023) โš ๏ธ This post contains sensitive content โš ๏ธ The title of this poem is taken from one man’s dating app profile. His top listed interests were Jesus, Guns & Rollerblading. There was som Life Drawing: Fig. 1 (Life is Sacred) // digital illustration, 11”x14”, 2023 @sareytales . Life Drawing classes were required in art school. I really didn’t love them, it was 90-120 minutes of intense observation and failed attempt “The Sacrifice” (2019/2023) Clay + Acrylic on Drywall, Graphic Design + Illustration, 16"x20" . “The Sacrifice” will be traveling to Alabama for the Re-Frame Pop-up Event for Reproductive Justice at @asthetikbham in Valentine’s Day Series, 2021 โค๏ธ๐Ÿญโค๏ธ . “Love Yourself First” “Conversations from the Heart” “Cold Hearted” . I love being able to share an entire completed series and see how the pieces play together. I still “An Irrelevant Older Woman” (2023 | photography + digital illustration | 11x14 inches) This piece is as inspired by message sent to me via my IG DMs, not a dating app… Under patriarchy, a woman’s proximity to a man gives American Kink 4: Patriotism (American Flag, mannequin, digital illustration, 2020) ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ This was the fourth and final piece in my “American Kink” series back in November 2020. I wanted to share it again today, on Jan. 6th, 2023, two yea “Le Chic Dick” ๐Ÿ’Ž๐Ÿ† (Digital illustration, 11x14, 2022 @sareytales) . This little gem will make it’s debut at The Dirty Show XXIII in February. Tickets on sale now! Visit @dirtyshowdetroit for more info. . Le Chic, as I call him for ๐™ƒ๐™š๐™ง๐™จ๐™๐™š๐™ฎ ๐™†๐™ž๐™˜๐™ ๐™จ ® (Polymer Clay, Hershey Chocolate Kisses Wrappers, Digital Illustration + Hand Lettering, 2023 @sareytales). . “Want to kick my balls?” He asked ๐Ÿ˜ต‍๐Ÿ’ซ . One of my submission for DSXXIII @dirtyshowdetroit Introducing Your No Feminist®, A New Handwritten Typeface by @sareytales “How’s the feminism movement going these days?”, he asked. Pithy, innocent little opener relating to an interest listed in my dating profile, or an invit “Commodity 4: Silence” ๐Ÿคซ๐Ÿ‘„ (wax lips, hardware, digital illustration, 2020). . “Be perfect, work for free. Love is the lock, and silence the key.” . ๐ŸคซSILENCE๐Ÿ‘„ The commodification of women’s silence is the most lethal “RMB” ๐ŸŒบ๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿป‍โ™€๏ธ๐ŸŒธ (digital illustration, 14x11, 2019) .. A revamp of one of my fave hall-of-shamers, Lee, 41, Kalamazoo. Swipe to read the message that inspired the art. . ๐ŸšจI’ll be presenting my work in a 15 minute TED-esque fo Introducing Hostile Leftist®, A Radical New Handwritten Typeface by @sareytales About the Product: The Hostile Leftist® Typeface is dripping with radical ideologies like universal healthcare, wealth & income equality, reproductive just #tbt to one of my faves from 2019: “Hot Air 3: The Nice Guy Parade” ๐ŸŽˆ๐ŸŽˆ๐ŸŽˆ๐Ÿ’จ How many times has a self-proclaimed “nice guy” popped like a bullshit balloon after not getting his way? ๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿป‍โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿผ‍โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿฝ‍โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿพ‍โ™€ Commodity 2: Emotional Labor ๐Ÿ’Š (metallic and pink glitter filled capsules + Rx jar + digital illustration, repost from 2020) . Be perfect, work for free. Love is the lock, and silence the key. . ๐Ÿ“ฃEmotional Labor ๐Ÿ“ฃ . Women have been socialized to a “More Control” (digital illustration, @sareytales 2018, 20”x16”) . New day, same tragedy. Thought experiment; How about we just keep guns out of the hands of (white) men? Would that be sexist, racist, or both? “Woman Series: Model 3 / Thee Incubator” โฒ๐Ÿคฐ๐ŸปDigital collage using photos sourced from various magazines / digital illustration / @sareytales 2021) . This work was originally shared in August, 2021. I will continue to reshare old work as