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I Was Filling Up My Gas Tank and Thought About Sex | A Collection of Short Stories and Prayers
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Swainston, Rob
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Spring 2025
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2025
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I jab at my matrix, my hands moving in repetitive strokes. I'm tunneled in on a singular curve of the body, form blurring and becoming an ambiguous sexed up animal. I say animal not in a violent way, but a natural way. Animal as it intersects with vulnerability, sexual identity. I am unapologetic in a process of frustration, my pieces a therapeutic vent. Loud and proud, I am Eli Civita, I am every hesitant mark but also every confident one. It is all about the mark and the more I think about that, the more I feel the urge to move away from the traditional figure and take up self-portraiture through movement and raw unbridled emotion. I don't feel the need to be ashamed of my being, my work is a monument of my self exploration and a catalog of the stories and things that make me unequivocally myself.
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