Blood and Honey
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This body of large format gouache and watercolor illustrations take on a particular conversation about body and identity. Blood and Honey explore my relationship to my body, physical and mental disability, queerness and sexuality, and how they all tie into a sense of attempting to escape the feeling of “not belonging”. With the use of malachite, blood, honey, and sticky fruit of the gods I explore the feeling of alienation. Divining a queer soul that lusts guilty through the feelings of lacking ‘usefulness’ as a body and how best one can try to defy that notion. Through the use of gold and strong symbolic imagery I try to elevate these concepts to a state of holiness. I will belong, I will love, I will continue to flourish through blood and honey, I will not apologies for my own power as a vessel of life. |
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Work shown at the spring SuperFine Art Expo SF, Gallery 308 at Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA, 2023
Additional Showing of "Superbloom" and "Mala(chite)daptiv Day Dreams" in Sunset Pride, Hunt&Gather, San Francisco, CA, 2023
Debut of "Gut Feeling" and "Les Yeux Sans Visage" in Art For The Sick, Moth Belly Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2023
Additional Showing of "Superbloom" and "Mala(chite)daptiv Day Dreams" in Sunset Pride, Hunt&Gather, San Francisco, CA, 2023
Debut of "Gut Feeling" and "Les Yeux Sans Visage" in Art For The Sick, Moth Belly Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2023
Gut Feeling (Hello Pluto In Aquarius)
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Featured in Art For The Sick, Moth Belly Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2023
You Know You Want To
"You Know You Want To" Gouache, Watercolor, and Gold Ink on Paper, 18"x22", 2023, Z. Fondanarosa, Image A
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"You Know You Want To" Gouache, Watercolor, and Gold Ink on Paper, 18"x22", 2023, Z. Fondanarosa, Image B
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Les Yeux Sans Visage
“Les Yeux Sans Visage” Gouache, Watercolor, Gold Ink on Paper, 16”x20”, 2023, Z. Fondanarosa
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“Les Yeux Sans Visage” Gouache, Watercolor, Gold Ink on Paper, 16”x20”, 2023, Z. Fondanarosa, Detail Image
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Featured in Art For The Sick, Moth Belly Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2023
Superbloom
"Superbloom Serenity" Watercolor, Gouache, and Gold Ink on Paper, 16"x16", 2023, Z. Fondanarosa, Image A
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"Superbloom Serenity" Watercolor, Gouache, and Gold Ink on Paper, 16"x16", 2023, Z. Fondanarosa, Image B
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Featured in Sunset Pride, Hunt&Gather, San Francisco, CA, 2023
Flood
"Flood" Gouache, Watercolor, and Acrylic on Paper, 22"x15", 2023, Z. Fondanarosa, Image A
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"Flood" Gouache, Watercolor, and Acrylic on Paper, 22"x15", 2023, Z. Fondanarosa, Image B
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A Little Too Much
“A Little Too Much” Gouache, Watercolor, and Gold on Paper, 22”x30”, 2023, Z. Fondanarosa, Image A
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“A Little Too Much” Gouache, Watercolor, and Gold on Paper, 22”x30”, 2023, Z. Fondanarosa, Image B
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Drone
“Drone” Gouache, Watercolor, and Gold on Paper, 14 1/2”x21”, 2022, Z. Fondanarosa, Image A
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“Drone” Gouache, Watercolor, and Gold on Paper, 14 1/2”x21”, 2022, Z. Fondanarosa, Image B
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Hades's Favorite (New Born)
"Hades's Favorite (New Born)" Watercolor, Gouache, and Gold on Paper, 16"x12", 2022, Z. Fondanarosa
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"Hades's Favorite (New Born)" Watercolor, Gouache, and Gold on Paper, 16"x12", 2022, Z. Fondanarosa, Detail Image Gold
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Mala(chite)daptive Day Dreams
“Mala(chite)daptive Day Dreams” Watercolor, Gouache, and Gold on Paper, 16”x16”, 2022, Z. Fondanarosa, Image A
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“Mala(chite)daptive Day Dreams” Watercolor, Gouache, and Gold on Paper, 16”x16”, 2022, Z. Fondanarosa, Image B
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Featured in Sunset Pride, Hunt&Gather, San Francisco, CA, 2023
Goodbye Pluto in Capricorn (Time at Last for Self Love)
"Goodbye Pluto in Capricorn (Time at Last for Self Love)" Gouache, Watercolor, and Gold on Paper, 18"x26", 2022, Z. Fondanarosa
