Sign of Life

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“Sign of Life”  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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The body is presented without apology — marked by scars, curves, and the soft aftermath of birth. A breast tilts outward, a torso bears the visible trace of labor. These marks are not disfigurements but inscriptions: evidence of survival, sacrifice, and continuity. They are the literal sign of life, carried on the skin.

Yet this truth is complicated by culture. In America, the postpartum body is judged, shamed, and pressed back toward invisibility. Where there should be reverence, there is scrutiny. Where there should be honor, there is misogyny — the demand that women erase the evidence of what makes them powerful.

This work reclaims what has been dismissed. It elevates the body after birth as both subject and landscape, insisting that beauty is not the absence of marks but the presence of them. Sign of Life resists the lie that worth ends when skin stretches, folds, or scars. It declares instead that these are the most honest proofs of creation, the most durable witnesses of love, endurance, and humanity.
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