Ouchie

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“Ouchie”  J.M.Liles © 2025
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Acrylic on fine art paper (14x11)
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Original art by Minneapolis local, queer, non-binary artist.
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Framed. 
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A scraped knee, a trickle of blood, a cartoonishly bright bandage — the familiar language of childhood injury. At first glance, the wound is minor, softened further by the title: Ouchie. But beneath the surface, the image shifts. From the wound, a capsule emerges, suggesting the intrusion of medicine, dependency, or the pressure to treat pain quickly, superficially, and move on.

This piece reflects the way women’s pain is often trivialized, dismissed, or reduced to something small and manageable. Society is eager to acknowledge minor wounds, the ones easily bandaged, while ignoring the deeper ruptures women endure: misogyny, violence, judgment, exploitation. Those wounds are harder to name, harder to heal, and rarely given the same sympathetic attention.

By focusing on something as seemingly insignificant as a scraped knee, Ouchie becomes a meditation on proportion and dismissal. It points to the absurdity of a culture that acknowledges surface pain while silencing the profound. The true wound lies not in the leg, but in the refusal to see what cuts deeper.
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