Pretty Ugly Words: I'm Not Good Enough - unframed giclee print - CLICK FOR SIZE OPTIONS

PRETTY UGLY WORDS: A Pattern-Interrupt Series

Words have power...but a picture is worth 1,000 words.
So what happens when you dress up ugly words in beautiful clothes?
You get PRETTY UGLY WORDS - a way to face your limiting beliefs head-on!

Why would you want to hang what seems like an insult on your wall? It's a chance to bring that dark stuff into the light, and transform it!

These collages are like sneaky affirmations. Gussying up negative self-talk with frills and lace creates a pattern-interrupt for the thought, and stops it in its tracks - like your own personal boggart, wrapped in a spell to disempower it!

Instead of pretending the thought isn't there, reframe it with a visual juxtaposition, and stare it the hell down.

You've got this!!

(Or not... because you're so stupid!)

(...except you're not, actually...that's just a thought pattern.)

(A pretty one. Look how pretty!)

(See what I did there?)
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*giclée is a fancy term for an archival inkjet print! More detail from Wikipedia: Giclée, commonly pronounced "zhee-clay," is a generic term for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The term, from the French verb gicler meaning "to squirt, to spray", originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print..