Against All Origins
Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski, 2023
44.5 in x 93.5 in
Watercolor, gouache, color pencil, embossment, airbrush, and collage on paper

Image is a large-scale drawing of a pleasure map to the unknown place.Two wild eyed guardians hold crooked daggers with thick fingers pointing towards each other and into a wet and shimmering purple orange pink sun hole. They are surrounded by candy colored ritualistic tools and objects of protection. Light beams radiate from their third nipples like UFOs into piles of full rumbling clouds. The large figure holding down the left of the map has deep brown skin full of the sun and two long bright white ponytails with many tiny drawings of decapitated femme heads coughing up fluorescent suns, dismembered arms and hands bursting into flames, diamond shaped pieces of the sky, ghosts, eyes, bones, and rainbows.  Similar symbols adorn her skin. She is full of endings and beginnings.  The large figure holding down the right of the map has inky midnight black skin covered in milky ways and constellations, rainbow bones and ghosts, rain and weather, jewels and doubling eyes. Her hair is a bright black with a dreaming femme head floating above thick thorny roses and drifting through a head full of alchemy. The guardians arms open into rolling hills covered in flowers and flaming at the tips into a dark starry sky. Two femme figures are pleasured by unseen forces face down ass up and electric star rivers pour from their pelves. Flamboyant caribou jump over the sun hole, and the hills dissolve into rippling bones pooling at the bottom of the map like a lake.