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Sam Azzaro


A self portrait of the artist. In the middle of the drawing is a white queer person who is looking upwards towards the right of the image at their hair. The person’s mouth is open and their face has hues of various colors. Their hair is multicolored in an assortment of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, brown, and black. The hair blends into the background of swirls, squiggly lines, stripes, and patterns of various colors. The shoulders and neck area of the artist are covered in more rainbow co

Euphoria

 A self portrait of the artist who is in the middle of the piece. Majority of their body is shown with their upper thighs at the bottom of the piece. The person is covering their chest and groin area with their hands. The person is orange, yellow, pink, and white in coloration throughout the body with random dashes of paint creating a cloudy texture. The person is smiling with their mouth closed and looking at the viewer. The person’s hair is multicolored of reds, greens, blues, pinks, oranges, and yellows.

In Perceiving Me

The painting shows the person’s head with two heads behind it peeking out from the side. The person has their arms behind the heads and is wearing a blue and purple shirt and the piece cuts off at the top of their chest. The person is white, orange, and brown with red, blue, and white thin lines accentuating the forms of the person. The background is a variation of yellows, pinks, blues, purples, browns, greens, and oranges. The background and the person have white lines and circles throughout as a pattern.

Multidimensional

A gray and shiny sculpture stands on top of a black sheer material with silver glitter flakes. The body is morphed to have extra shoulders coming off of the side, and is missing breast tissue in one are and has it added to another portion of the body. There is a gap in the groin area to signify the lack of sex characteristics in that area. There are ridges on the body to signify stretch marks and morphing. The background behind the iron sculpture is a white wall.

Shifted

Two identical people sit next to each other. Both people are wearing a blue and purple shirt and are looking upwards. Both people have heads coming off their shoulders and are connected with white strings coming off their bodies and out of their eyes. The people are outlined in white and have various colors on their skin. The background ranges from black to green, to pink, to blue, and to purple at the top.

Somewhere in Between

A mannequin stands in a large gallery room. There are paintings on the wall behind the mannequin. The mannequin is black in color mostly with various shades of blues, reds, purples, and greens on it. The legs are white with black and yellow line work. The mannequin is covered in words talking about queer identity. There is a black cloth coming out of the mannequin's wrist that wraps around the mannequin’s feet and trails behind them with silver glitter flakes on the floor.

The Continual Process of Becoming 1

A close up of a mannequin’s stomach area and the forearms and left hand. The mannequin’s body is covered in paint varying in blacks, blues, reds, purples, yellows, and greens. The words on the mannequin’s forearm say “My identity is mine to define and I exist defiantly.” The lower half of the mannequin’s body has dots, squiggles, and stars on it and says “I will not be ashamed.” a black sheer fabric exits out of the right wrist of the mannequin.

The Continual Process of Becoming 2

A close up of a mannequin’s lower left side. The mannequin’s side is covered in white, black, blue, and yellow paint with circles, stars, eyeballs, and lines on the side. The words on the side of the mannequin say “I realized very early that I was different and now I can say that’s okay. Behind the mannequin is a light gray and white gallery wall with one painting behind it.

The Continual Process of Becoming 3

A watercolor painting using mainly red, yellow, and blue paint. There is an abstract morphed body in the center of the painting surrounded by squiggles, lines, circles, and paint drips that represent the shift in one’s body and identity. The body has various sex characteristics but is not discernable of what sex the body is.

The Dysphoria Portraits Body

A watercolor painting using mainly red, yellow, and blue paint. It is the face of the artist made out of paint splatters, thin white lines, and splotches of red, blue, and yellow paint. The face and neck are disconnected and there is a blue spiral on the top of the neck. The left eye of the person is close and the right one is half open. Paint splatters move off of the frame of the painting.

The Dysphoria Portraits Mind

A watercolor painting using mainly red, yellow, and blue paint. There are two hands, the right hand crosses over the left hand with the fingers curving and bending slightly to grab something above it. The right hand looks like it is trying to caress something off the frame of the painting. The hands are mostly blue and are surrounded by yellow, orange, and red paint. The hands are outlined in thin white lines and dots creating the shape of the hands.

The Dysphoria Portraits Soul

A watercolor painting. There are two faces in the painting of the same person in different phases of their life. One head is in the top left corner of the painting and is outline in white think lines and dots. A rainbow bleeds out from under the black hairline of the person down to their eyes. The neck cuts off into a shirt that blends into the background. The right person has the trans flag colors of blue, pink, and white bleeding off their cheeks on to their neck and into the background.

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