Hot Girl Shit, 2021

“They were walking in the streets late at night. Each one was handed a knife to protect herself. Weaponry. If anything were to happen, she was ready. They were all ready.

There’s something beautiful to me about women helping women. We see each other and we understand. Since birth... It weighs.

Beauty is hunted… Pain.

Each one of them made it home safe that night.

In the morning, I asked her if I could see the knife…

I painted it,

we cried together,

and then I gave it back.”

-Isabella Fernanda