Art - Michelle Moirai, Disjointed - Fundraiser for Maxtivity (NPO)
Your purchase of this artwork goes to support the non-profit MAXtivity, and art and creative space in Philomath Oregon. If you are from outside of the Greater Corvallis Area, after you purchase the artwork, email Adrienne Fritze at adrienne@remarkablearts.biz to discuss shipping arrangement. If you are from our area, please choose Local Pickup as your shipping option. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ FROM THE ARTIST As an artist and a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, I wanted to explore body dysmorphia and what it means to not feel at home in your own body. For this exhibition, I wanted to create something that the Nazi regime would doubly despise - modern, expressionistic art in what they considered the “Degenerate Art” style paired with queer representation. More specifically, I wanted to capture the great mystery that many feel surrounding the fluidity of gender, sexual identities, and the struggles to fit into a society that doesn’t understand them. Changing iden