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FROM THE ARTIST

As an artist and a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, I wanted to explore body dysmorphia and what it means to not feel at home in your own body.

For this exhibition, I wanted to create something that the Nazi regime would doubly despise - modern, expressionistic art in what they considered the “Degenerate Art” style paired with queer representation.

More specifically, I wanted to capture the great mystery that many feel surrounding the fluidity of gender, sexual identities, and the struggles to fit into a society that doesn’t understand them. Changing identity issues, coming out, and discrimination are just a few examples of the way the world can leave you feeling incomplete and out of place. Not knowing which parts of you to get rid of - or which parts of you belong - so you finally stop feeling out of place and find the acceptance you need is just one of the ways that body dysmorphia leaves our community vulnerable.

Michelle Moirai is a digital artist who lives and works in Morgantown, West Virginia. Her personal style focuses on duplication of traditional art mediums in a digital setting, and the themes of transformation and uncovering what has been hidden.

As a child, Moirai received prizes for her creative artworks. However, hand tremors eventually caused her to cease painting in traditional art mediums. The precision of digital art tools eventually allowed her to resume creating art, and in 1997 she began her path to becoming a graphic designer. Over the last 25 years, she has grown as both an artist and as a marketing professional, designing numerous art pieces for freelance marketing projects.

Currently, Moirai works as the Assistant Director of Marketing Technology for the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University, where she uses her design talents to create websites for the college. Outside of work, she continues to create digital paintings, and is currently exploring how text-to-art artificial intelligence can be beneficial to the advancement of the digital arts.