Miasma

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“Miasma”  J.M.Liles © 2025
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Acrylic on canvas (12x9)
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Original art by Minneapolis local, queer, non-binary artist.
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Framed. 
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The title, Miasma, recalls an older belief: that disease spread through poisoned air, an invisible corruption saturating the atmosphere. Here, it becomes a metaphor for trauma, ideology, and the unseen forces that permeate daily life. The eye looks out through the residue of harm, unable to escape the environment that corrodes it.

This piece turns the language of still life inward. Instead of objects on a table, it presents the body itself as an object — absorbed into its surroundings, blurred with the toxins that shape it. It suggests the suffocating inheritance of systems: family, faith, state, culture. Like a stain, they seep and spread, their presence unavoidable.

Miasma exposes what cannot be scrubbed away, the lingering corruption that inhabits both walls and lungs, both memory and flesh.
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