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How to Escape Home [And Still End up Traumatized] (2025)

acrylic paint on 40x30in stretched canvas.

an ode to nostalgia, the feelings of childhood that you didnt have because everything was to escape instability. no safety in the good zones even if they were good in your eyes. just your own pure naivity, which was not enough to protect you.

detail shots below

I thought I had posted this here before but I guess I never did. I made this during Bitstrips and Cartoon Network's "Stop Bullying" campaign in 2011-12. Miraculously, this was actually featured in the site's gallery despite the teacher collapsing in the back.