Project Statement
Look Up, was created between 2020 and 2021 by Linnea Cat Stahura at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Its purpose is to expose the body, my body, as a site of oppression and joy all at once. I believe in the “inter-” like interdependence, intersectionality, interpersonal. The pieces here are parts of myself I am willing to share because the cost is worth the reward: being known and existing authentically is my answer to a system that asks me to vanish. In the middle of making this art, a global virus shut the world down, we saw the biggest social justice movement in history, hate crimes towards Asian citizens increased drastically, my grandmother passed away, I began HRT, I got engaged, and I received three untreatable diagnoses after a surgery. Everything here is a memoir of those experiences, all tied to the systems that affected every day in between.
