Steffany Ojeda
Work Details
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This work is a reclamation of body and spirit. Part of a series called Violent Fruit, I am using my body to meditate on the violence that plagues my feminine existence. I am subject to night terrors due to complex post traumatic stress. Consumption is a common topic, as I fear returning to a loss of self. While consuming the flesh of another object, I meditate over the violence that is necessary for sustenance. What I choose to eat becomes part of who I am. The fruit is a metaphor for the violence I have experienced. By using my own body to exhibit dominance over what I consume at a large scale, it feels like an assertion of self in space. The edges of the solid background, representing the void in between thoughts, are burned to allow space for turmoil to exist, just as the memories are not bound by a box but rather our bodies. The edges of the work are determined by controlled fire, asserting dominance over chaos.
Artist Bio
Steffany Ojeda is an artist and educator with 10 years of experience teaching in urban New Jersey High Schools and for the Educational Arts Team. She is a 2023 MFA alumni from Maine College of Art & Design and an esteemed educator who has been awarded such honors such as: Teacher of Year 2019, 2021 & 2024 by her respective school districts, and 2020 Teacher of the Year Honoree by the Governor of New Jersey. Her Interdisciplinary portfolio combines focuses on using fine art to create platforms for voices to be amplified and stories to be shared. Her work moves between personal recounts of growing up Latina in marginalized areas of northern New Jersey and building platforms for community engagement. Steffany seeks to foster spaces of critical engagement by asking us to move slowly, listen and observe.
Mediums
Drawing & Illustration, matches