Chandelle Waugh

What drives my desire to create work is having something to say, a need to create an understanding of being a woman. To highlight the awful experiences, the shit we don’t talk about, the late-night breakdowns, the mental health issues we acquire through childhood, the fucking abortions we’re forced to have and the guys we leached onto who hurt us because we just needed to be wanted. I want to show the god damn strength we have, the shit we’re put through and how we don’t let it defeat us we let ourselves fucking flourish, we turn weeds into roses, we’re constantly broken down and re-build ourselves each time more beautiful than before. My work speaks to us, it brings us a glimpse of hope, a mutual cry, a warm feeling that it’s not just me, it in no way makes it fucking right, but we’re growing up through this society together and that’s what I want. A connection, a relationship. I crave it. I go through shit so I can make you feel better when you go through the same shit, I am a mother, an artist.