Painting
Maybe If I Dig, I Can Find Something for You to Love
Shame in your being, self-destruction with the goal of validation. Feeling unworthy of love in your natural state, breaking yourself to rationalize why you deserve a basic need. When we feel like we need a reason for someone to love us, we are... More
Painting
I Set Myself Ablaze Just for Warmth
Continuation of negative circumstances, a compulsion to engage with things that are knowingly harmful out of a false sense of comfort and security given from repeated exposure to these situations. Hurting ourselves becomes the safe and... More
Painting
A Hungry Dog is a Loyal Dog
inspired by La Fontaine’s fable The Dog Which Carried Round His Neck His Master’s Dinner. Originally written to warn against greed and endorse subservient loyalty, the tale casts moral judgment on a dog for fulfilling its basic needs when their... More
Painting
How Much More Need I Change?
Human-hyena hybrid in a defensive pose for hyenas, trying to defend the remnants of their identity as the translucency of the skin allows us to see inside them, seeing how empty and amalgamated they truly are, with stitched in bones and human hands... More
Work by
Alexa Beattie aka. Soulenex
Multi Media
“I am a multi-media, fantasy-inspired artist exploring the dark or uncomfortable aspects of identity, emotion, and experience. I create a safe space for people to recognize and connect with the parts...” [More]