On motherhood and connection

On family, and what those we love leave behind

Colored pencil on paper exploring place, identity, and change

A powerful diptych on the longing for autonomy and duality

On migration, home, and the things you can’t take with you

Working primarily in oils on canvas or linen, fictitious characters are often set within a dramatic, solitary scene.

There were two goats there and they were taken away to be slaughtered.

Watercolor paintings and short stories

all-woman/trans tarot deck based on lesbian embodiments of the Earth through anticolonial lenses of ecofeminism

Seventh Heaven invites reflection on the unspoken rituals defining womanhood, exploring themes of sacrifice, journey, and the balance between innocence and maturity.

Is this shame mine?

I pick up books I wouldn’t have on my own, and I often learn a great deal from other people as I collage.

More collages from Kate Partington in Antlers Vol. II

We are not separate from nature, and we should not be afraid to relish the sensation of being engulfed by it.

More self portraits by Esmé Papa

‘Crushed’ is a photographic series exploring breast cancer

surgery

“Self-portraiture is an instrument that allows me to define my own representation as a woman.”

Photos by Zosia Laskowska