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Embracing Play
Paint on Canvas. This painting appears multidimensional due to its use of sharp lines to show separations of color bending out from the center. Solid, darkish toned colours sit within these lines and work well together to form the energy of this piece.
Reclaiming Light
Paint on Canvas. This painting appears multidimensional due to its use of sharp lines to show seperations of color bending out from the center. Solid, darkish toned colours sit within these lines and work well together to form the energy of this piece.
“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” – Audre Lorde
“Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.” – P.C. Cast
“Be like the moon in someone’s sky and show her the way of life with your loving silvery lights during the darkness.” – Debasish Mridha MD
Many of us live and play small, don’t rock the boat, and conform to a societal identity of how we “should” behave and be seen. Through patriarchy and colonization, we learned these mechanisms to survive. Not thrive. Yet, have you ever been out in nature and observed her ability to stand out, and not conform to “standards”. The odd patch of lime green on an evergreen tree, the tree trunk that is bent and does grow straight, the flower that has a missing petal… they thrive and bring so much joy to the world.
“Reclamation: Diwali Inspired” tells stories of reclaiming our identity. I integrate themes from the Ramayana (Hanuman, Rama and Sita), shadow work (inner child work), and colours I observe in nature, to tell stories of how we might reclaim our identity and ways of being, so that we can thrive.
Pearl A. Sequeira (she/her) is a self-taught emerging and abstract artist. She works and lives as a settler in Toronto, Canada, which is the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas of the Credit River, Indigenous Nations of Turtle Island, who have lived sustainably with the earth and her resources.
Pearl’s practice explores the complexity of our identity through the lens of anti-oppression – what influences how we develop as a human being, how we discover hidden parts of ourselves, and how we might shed untrue narratives and reclaim who we are. She is a femme of colour, and has an international and Third Culture Child background; this gives her a non-native frame of reference to observe spaces with curiosity and child-like naïveté. She integrates ideas and concepts from disparate domains, to create new ways of seeing things. This is witnessed in her work by her use of colour and texture to make acrylic and mixed media paintings, on canvas and wood. Pearl is a life-long learner, and learns from multiple sources, including nature, diverse disciplines of knowledge, dialogue, and travelling.
