I usually turn to art to escape the world, but lately the world has been too loud to leave outside the studio. “So Fucking Macho” is my visual essay on toxic masculinity and the bullshit performance required to sustain it. Through saturated color, layered imagery, and mirrored lettering, I turn strength, sex, violence, and swagger into an exaggerated spectacle. Beneath the bravado lies a fragile script: dominate, intimidate, never reveal a crack. The work asks what happens when we mistake aggression for power and vulnerability for weakness—and how much of ourselves we sacrifice to keep up the act.
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