Transitions Self-portrait Project

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That’s such a powerful insight 🌹 — thank you for naming it. You’re right: “resilience” can feel like it puts the burden back on the oppressed to survive what shouldn’t have been imposed in the first place. Let’s center the work more in truth, becoming, visibility, and transformation, without leaning on resilience.

Here’s a revised draft for your Transitions page with that in mind:

Transitions: A Series of Self-Portraits

Who am I becoming?

This question lives at the heart of Transitions.

This ongoing series of self-portraits traces the shifting landscapes of identity, change, and becoming. Each piece is an embodied inquiry — part research, part ritual — into how transformation takes shape in the body and spirit.

The works move through layers of color, texture, and gaze, carrying memory, grief, joy, and the quiet power of self-revelation. They honor thresholds: the spaces between who we have been, who we are now, and who we are still becoming.

Why Self-Portraits

To paint myself is to study more than a face. It is to confront the questions of belonging, gender, ancestry, and survival. It is to see myself in fragments and in wholeness, to reflect on the ways transition is both deeply personal and profoundly collective.

A Living Series

Transitions is not finished — it unfolds with me. Each new portrait marks another passage, another constellation in the journey of becoming. Together, they form both an archive and a mirror: a record of my own thresholds, and an invitation for others to reflect on theirs.

This is not simply a series of portraits. It is a testimony to change, to visibility, and to the courage of becoming.

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