And so, I won’t speak about myself in third person. You will find this theme throughout my work: adamance that I will claim myself. My name is Kaitlyn Michaux and I insist on feeling alive. It is turtles all the way down of boxes I place myself in; a Russian nesting doll of identities. My work explores the endless pursuit of my desire for there to be no walls to bang my fists against. Yet, I find a way to revel in each new self-imposed and imagined cage. I romanticize these battles through my art, not to beautify suffering but because I want to show you that I enjoy it. I am not a masochist. I want to See myself.

I want you to feel me as I am.