Maya kay
I paint beings that exist beyond definition. Their race, gender, and ethics are in a grey area of beyond. Are they good or evil? Guarded or soft? Woman or non binary? Asian or mixed or black? Yes. I am interested in the places where opposites meet and dissolve into one another. Masculine and feminine. Human and spirit. Beauty and grief. The self we know and the self waiting to unfold.My practice evolved from graphite to colored pencils to digital creation to painting because I reached a point where I needed to make a mess and let forms emerge from it. Most of my paintings center on feminine figures who exist somewhere between portraiture, mythology, and dream. I needed to lose control with the paint, reach a point of distortion and surrender, and let a kind of raw, chaotic beauty emerge.I hope when people experience my work they can sense new parts of themselves they didn’t have access to before. I hope people feel the tension between bliss and suffering, between their materiality and their infinite soul.I paint because to do so is to create reality. And to create reality is to add life force energy to the dream that artists and healers are co-creating—one where we are fully alive, in full expression of our truth, one where queer feminine mystical beings are in charge, in pleasure and pain fully embracing this experience of being alive.