Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Menelik Powell
CUTE!
Illustration
2021
Created in Photoshop
I'm learning things about myself with this one.
“This work is about exploring my gender expression through artwork. At the time of creating this work, I started to learn about masculinity and its current meanings. Ultimately, concluding that it is fluid and can appear in many forms. There are no rules to gender, and people are allowed to investigate it. My artwork is my response to that idea, creating a cute version of myself because that isn't commonly seen as very masculine, but it can be. (1/4 artworks as well)”
Work by
Menelik Powell aka. Guise
Figurative Visual Artist
“There is always something that we can relate to with the human experience. While we each experience something unique, I think that the emotions that we feel when experiencing similar events connect...” [More]
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