Framed and glazed with museum grade anti-reflection glass.

“No.3 I get to decide is a bold exploration of stopping others in their overstep and choosing for the self. Making the conscious decision to say no. Making a deliberate choice to trust your own mind and express that you don’t want something. It’s about listening to your own code, your own inspiration.

In the throws of my life, because I am creative, I have had others frequently tell me what I should be doing. It’s not uncommon for creatives, as it’s a fluctuating career branch that points to being poor and struggling - very untrue in itself, but not to digress. People tend to offer unsolicited advice because you’re not doing things the way they think you could be. Or they way they would. To my shame, and pleasing tendencies, I have followed plenty of this advice when I have not resonated with it, sometimes for years, trying to make some sort of living and to please others.

When I follow this path I’m actively circling the drain - mentally, so to speak. I break out of it from time to time. But I know I need that space. To create, to express the way I need to. I don’t make art because it’s just nice. I make it because I have to. Like many, I’ve held my tongue when being told what I must do because being perceived as a difficult (female) artist would be such a terrible crime.

This work was a meditative practice on perceived control, perfectionism and thinking about my responsibilities. I wanted to hone in on the sense of what I want and need in an artwork. Not for anything, not to be manipulated or controlled in any way to make money - it exists only to be itself. We need reminding of that sentiment throughout society, in my opinion. Some might say it’s not finished, but they would be absolutely wrong. Its future is still ahead, wild and undone, but it is perfect just as it is. It doesn't need to be complete to be complete.

For the record, I fucking hate being told what to do.”

- Karlee Hankin

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