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Maker(s):Kirwin, Cedar; Lycan, Paula (collaborator)
Culture:American (1993- ); American (1992- )
Title:I Exist Between Every Line
Date Made:2017
Type:Print
Materials:lithograph
Measurements:30 x 22
Accession Number:  AC 2018.02
Credit Line:Purchase, Trinkett Clark Memorial Student Acquisition Fund
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
This work is a portrait of Kirwin after their top surgery. With the addition of writing and visual manipulation through lithography, they created a compelling self-portrait loaded with personal meaning that reflects the self-identity of the emerging artist. Kirwin said they grew up “in a family and rural community where queerness was hidden and never talked about; where feelings were shushed and swept under the rug.” I Exist Between Every Line substantiates part of a thread they are constantly untangling “in an effort [to] learn more about their own place in the world, as well as [to] expose queer existence and representation by and for queer bodies around the world.”

Tags:
writing; self-portraits; sexuality; nudes; sexual orientation; gender identity; LGBTQ; medicine

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