Frankie entered the world like a freight train rolling out of a station. With a slow start but unstoppable force, she built her home out of the rain and clay of the Pacific Northwest. She wove in dreams of dappled sunshine, soft moss, and a capacity for infinite pleasure.
Art Mission and Statement
My artwork is an honest portrait of my journey as a neurodivergent queer artist working through trauma and addiction. I offer my work as a window into the world where recovery, joy, resilience, pleasure and play are the embodied reality.
I work in multiple mediums. My tattoos focus on the collaborative quality between myself, the artist, and the client, the canvas. My tattoos are one of a kind abstract expressions of themes that my clients are going through or calling into their lives. They are imbued with the symbolism they need to nourish themselves, and designed for their unique body alone. My tattoos provide my clients with an experience and a ritual to ground themselves in their body, finding strength, courage, and beauty in themselves.
My paintings are my internal landscapes that are an honest reflection of the vast and complex range of the human experience. I work in abstraction so that the viewer will continually find new places in the painting to explore and relate to, and so that the viewer has room to bring their own experience and find camaraderie in. While my intention in making paintings is part of the process, ultimately the paintings will be off living their lives in one's home or workplace. There is not a placard to explain. What matters to me most is how one feels when viewing my paintings without knowing the backstory. And I make spaces for the viewer to feel connection, joy, and beauty.
Alayna Papaicovou
