Tide

A giclée print, carefully reproduced using archival ink on beautifully textured, archival matte paper.

The story behind the art

The tide is strong, but we'll stay, together. Tide is a reflection on how liberating it is to finally integrate an invisible difference, a disability. Knowing, seeing and understanding is not the same as owning. Owning allows to belong. Owning allows to recognize those who share a similar reality. Owning allows to connect and bond over that shared reality, over vulnerability.⁠
⁠Being able to do just that has dragged me out of the darkest places. It has given me wings, it has made way to more potential, to more joy, to opportunities that are a better fit with who I am.⁠
⁠There's relief in defining oneself, and there's power in being able to live as such.
⁠It is a long way there, unfolding every layer and blooming through it all. Like many of us, I am still stumbling and fumbling. But doing so in the light, amongst those that share my differences and disabilities is soothing and empowering.⁠ I can see them, and they can see me.⁠
⁠With my work, I hope that I can make you feel very welcome into this powerful warmth. ⁠

Good to know

• Sold without frame with 1-1,5cm of empty space to ease framing, with only the drips at the bottom reaching the border of the paper
• The signature on the front of this piece is digital, but Coco also signs and dates it by hand on the back
• Printed on heavy weight 310gsm paper

The original for this artwork is also available. Please reach out if you're interested!