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Anna May Wong

Wong fights the stereotypes that have followed her throughout her entire life, but she is still confined to those roles as she fights.

Catherine de Medici

Under a veil of darkness, the Queen Mother makes a move that spills blood on the streets of Paris. She is, after all, secretly the one who has always been playing this game.

Emily Dickinson

An effigy, a snapshot of the person Dickinson was. This piece incorporates Dickinson’s three passions: gardening, poetry, and binding and publishing her own version of the poetry.

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Mary Magdalene

After a lifetime of undying devotion, Mary stands disheveled, blind, and mad in front of a bruised sky. The consequences of the life she led clearly show on her face and body.

Naiá

Naiá gazes at her beloved moon’s reflection on the water, her own face meeting her eyes through branches and leaves. A faint outline of what she will one day become haunts the image.

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Ophelia

The weeping willow takes up root in young Ophelia’s stomach, making her one with the environment around her. Her devotion defined her in life, and now it does in death as well.

The Artist

What becomes of the artist once her art itself becomes her inspiration? Her art comes from her own pain, her own guts, but she continues to regenerate endlessly.

Valerie Solanas

Solanas stands defiantly in front of a bastardization of her victim’s art. The consequences of her devotion to her work bind her hands together.

Work by

Brunna Fanticelli de Moura

Illustration

“'Blind Devotees' is a series of depictions of historical and fictional women who have shown great devotion in exchange for their own mental and physical well-being.”