STRANDED. SAVED.

🌸🌸🌸🌸FERAL 🌸🌸🌸🌸 portrait of Monica Canilao by 🌸🌸🌸 KOGAN🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

Make over after five years of salt water abuse 🦋🌸💦🌙🌷💧💜🌹💧

Excited to be part of @creativegrowth s #beyondtrend fashion show again this year on Saturday! This pic is from last years event at the Oakland Museum of California. Creative Growth Art Center serves artists with developmental, mental and physical disabilities, providing a professional studio environment for artistic development, gallery exhibition and representation and a social atmosphere among peers. (at Oakland Museum of California)

SERAPHIM <> more old works. So much different//////\ so much the same. We age n grow n evolve but never truly change..... We evolve into more facetted creatures picking up shards and strengths, skills and understanding as we move through our lives and loves. Always searching. Always hungry

Mamas first time trying a amate style paper cut///// channeling Traditional Mexico vibes as I prepare to leave Oakland for a month long residency in Tulum with @residentiagorila!!! #papercutting #sickbed

This large piece of mine 'Before Mountains' is being returned to me from LA. Sadly I have no space for her and I am wanting to part with her to a new good home. I am in need of some dollars to get through my next stint of projects. If you are interested in her please PM me an offer and I will explain some details. Still sick in bed but stronger by the day.

Sometimes you are stuck alone sick in bed/// sometimes you are paddling someplace out in the middle of a canal in Italy between Venice and the Adriatic Sea seeking adventure & living on a fleet of hand made junk rafts crewed by likewise beautiful artists n freaks @swoonhq pic by @todseelie circa 2009 #swimmingcitiesofserenissima

Years of the intention to collaborate in some way built up to the right moment, gained skill and growth through trial and hard work. @jenlorang & I are starting a mix of our magic and brewing something sweet. Here is a lil teaser our our yesterday beginnings <><>:::::🙌🏽💎💎💎💎🌸💎💎💎💎🙌🏽:::::<><>

The Common Snipe - from the series I did while traveling the country called painted birds //////////**

With the most glorious @daniellismore {{{{{{{{{||||||||||||+

The second twin pair made in collaboration by & for my sister Emory and I -- poppy pod earrings::::::::::::::::::::: --:;(((((€0||||====

////////////\\<FREETHAFREE// freethefree// FREE THE wrongfully captured// those held without care or reason// FREE the already oppressed// Set FREE the caged birds still singing for you somehow// FREEdumb from money which enslaves u and marks one persons worth above another's// FREE tha FREE /////////\\\ FREE yourself from everyday chains and pains by putting more live out onto the world/// save eachother <><> things made without permission by @xara_thustra & myself #monicacanilao @__moreferalthan__ //. New projects MC XT

-:::::::::<>{{{{{{€=+== special healer earring commission for the most lovely Gracia. There is so much power in the hands to shape and mend and make something from nothing or very little. Always remember how powerful u are out there in the world <><>

Fr33 THA Fr33 /////////<>{{{<>+. Make art not war against each one another... While you where sleeping we are dreaming. Dreaming scheming screaming flowers n throwing stitches into, bites we eat n drink the trash and grow stronger by lifting back up our troubled friends from the floor they are pushed down and walked upon. We are growing more colorful and staying hungry for change. This collaboration and more to kum by myself n @xara_thustra - all made by hand and with the intent to exist someplace with a space for everyone to shine as they are. >>>>

To every woman, to non-binary, gender non conforming folks, to trans women, to women of color and especially trans women of color.... I stand with you, I celebrate you, I see you, I support you, I will fight for you, and work for a world that will stand up against the violence against you, today and every day. It is so important to strive to shape a world where abuse and inequality is unacceptable. To women in all of their many beautiful forms- of strength- hard and soft, fighting and giving, forever living a life that will always be harder. Thank you ... I love you each and every one of you.... you lift me up

"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now." - James Baldwin ////// last night I saw I am not your Negro. It is the most powerful film I have ever seen. I barely have words and am still processing it. We are again currently in a state of unrest and doomed to repeat a history born in fear of difference. Our government is not working to protect us and is instead pushing for the division of people. In this time when our friends and family, people of all beliefs and colors and genders are being systematically shit upon and stripped of their basic human rights..... We must all of us band together and resist// love harder// fight this patriarchy and stand up again fascism, hate and division. It won't work. The people's voice is stronger. Stand up for what is right✊🏽🌈