MOONRISE ON MARS (*40CM X 30CM*)

2025. Acrylic, tempera paint stick and oil pastel on canvas. 45.7cm x 35.5cm. 

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About ‘Moonrise On Mars’ (2025):

“This one is about growing into myself & letting the inner ‘weirdness’ (by which I mean… suppressed neurodivergent traits) spill out. See also: unmasking after a long time of not knowing that’s what i’d been doing most of my life n starting to feel less like an alien and a fraud.

i started this piece in Jan and finished it in March and have only had a dim understanding of what it’s about in the interim. i’m an intuitive painter. i try to lean into randomness and chaos and play in my practice & not think things thru too much. i often say that ‘my intention is to be as unintentional as possible’. it’s healing for me n my ADHD to do it way. also means i can actually get work done instead of being held back by perfectionism!

The collateral of that tho is that often when i finish a work i can’t rlly explain it yet. i need a few months MINIMUM to gather data n think n reflect in order to unravel it. Finally had the big ‘aha’ in this instance while watching Lilo & Stitch (the og cartoon version) this weekend.

Not ready to go into specifics yet cos I’m sitting w it still but the gist is… oh… right… yeh… it’s about the exp of growing up autistic without knowing that u are & spending a lot of time/energy/focus desperately suppressing certain traits so u don’t get detected as ‘different’ & then… the new dawn of getting a diagnosis and being like… oh. Ok. I am different. I actually am… just wired a bit differently! & wait… that’s fine & allowed & maybe… maybe? i can learn to live in a new way that accounts for that instead of trying to erase it?”