ño / no
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20x20cm oil pastels on canvas
There's a stage in which the little ones say no to everything. They set limits like no one else.
It usually happens that adults do not listen, and force them -doing it like they did it to them.
This little monster turns out to be my little self who comes to scream through my adult self. It's an ode to all those times I wanted to say no, but felt like I couldn't because of the need to please, fit in, be accepted and loved.
I started to stop saying no from a very young age, because I was very punished for it. That way, you get to the point where you lose track of who you are, what you like and what you don't, or what you want to do. You feel lost, and you grow up saying yes to things that definitely NOT🥀
It's a monster because that's how a part of me feels, even today, when I say no to certain things🔥 I often feel sad when I set limits💧 although I quickly feel like that's the way💫
I am surprised by the ability of some adults to forget what they felt as children and to empathize with the little people they are close to💔