I like to position my art in a place
that is explicitly political, because I
think in times like these, the time for
apathy is up.
My name is Hana,
a.k.a. Frizz Kid, and I'm an artist and a
writer in Toronto.
I'm probably best
known for –
Okay, yeah just eat your food. This is a good
time for that.
I think I'm most known
for my affirmation series, which kind of
goes through things around
mental health, body politics, feminism. All
my art – even though some of my art looks
drastically different from one another,
they all kind of touch on the same ideas
and they're all really political.
I believe in art being – at least my
art, I've made it very explicitly
political.
We're living in these really tumultuous
times. This sort of wishy-washy,
corporatization of feminist art, whitewashing of feminist art –
that's not going to solve any of these
problems, and it's not going to make
anyone feel better living in times like
these.
The thing that we struggle with
is just the erasure of our stories, and
not being able to just tell them
and be believed.
I think it is a lot to just say 'I see
what you're going through, and I
hear you and I understand that this is
happening.'
A simple piece of art may not
be enough to pick them up out of those
difficult times, but I at least want them
to feel heard.
