Hello. My name is Maze. This is what I look like:
Maze (spirit)
Image description: A sketch with black pen and cross hatched shading on a slighlty gray-beige background. There is a gender-ambiguous human with short curly hair squatting on a cross hatched line that indicates a floor. The person’s body is somewhat misshapen with unrealistic proportions and a feral look in their eyes. One eye points down and the other is higher on the forehead point up to the left. They are smiling slightly:)
Maze (face)
Image description: My face and shoulders with low lighting. I have tan colored skin, dark hair with loose curls that is cut short on the sides. I am smiling big, my head tilted up a bit towards the camera. I am wearing dangly silver earrings and a knitted sweater with a biege collar. You can vaguely see some drawing on my chest and a drawing taped to the wall behind me.
My creative work spans visual art, writing, herbalism, land stewardship, farming, climate justice organizing, and yoga instruction - through this collage of healing justice mediums I co-create experiences of liberation. As a visual artist, my practice is inspired by the relationships between human bodies and the land, and brings my experience of reality as a neurodivergent person into physical form. In all these endeavors, my motivation is to create microcosms of home, as someone coming from Ashkenazi and South Asian lineages of diaspora, displacement, disownership, queerness and disability. Home is liberation - it is a place where you can be safely unmasked, where you are held, where you are valued, where the ecosystem knows you and you know the ecosystem.
Contact:
mayael.chn@gmail.com