Illustrations Gallery
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.
Work shown at the spring SuperFine Art Expo SF, Gallery 308 at Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA, 2023 |
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“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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"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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"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” 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” 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)" 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” 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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"Goodbye Pluto in Capricorn (Time at Last for Self Love)" Gouache, Watercolor, and Gold on Paper, 18"x26", 2022, Z. Fondanarosa
Other Illustration Work
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"Fresh"
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"Red Gold and Green (Redraw from 2015)" Marker on Paper, 2017
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"Loving You Was Like Pulling Teeth" Ink, Silver, Marker, Pencil on Paper, 2016
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