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Drawing and Painting

Stacy Lucibello

Hymn to Hera (Sisters Dance)

Painting
2024
Acrylic and oil on canvas.
36x36"
1500 (CAD) For Sale
A found family is something most queer people see as essential to surviving in a queerphobic world; it is something that gives community, support, and joy, among other things. It is not something that I have, however. This painting is my idyll — my own found family, born of colour and line. It depicts a bacchanal of fellow trans women. It is a beautiful illusion of a world divorced from transphobia, one where our happiness is centred and our bodies are not problems to be eradicated but instead things to be celebrated.

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Hymn to Hera (Sisters Dance)
Hymn to Hera (Sisters Dance)

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Stacy Lucibello aka. Stacy Athena May

Drawing & Painting

“Art is my form of communication and I am developing, through the lexicon of shape, line, and colour, a new visual language. This language is one of transition — and fundamentally queer. It is...” [More]