This piece is born from the lineage I carry: the fairground I grew up on, the travelling show people, the performers, the misfits, and those who lived by instinct and spectacle. My great-grandmother was a trapeze artist and later a “freak” in the sideshows of the fairgrounds, she told fortune’s and weaved gold, not for applause, but to preserve a way of life that was always under threat, much like many peoples’ identities are today.

The bodies are raw, distorted, and alive, part performer, part witness and they reveal what happens when the gaze turns inward, when the so-called “freak” becomes the one holding the mirror.

Welcome to the Freakshow is therefore for anyone who has ever felt like the outsider, the one too much, too strange, or too feeling. The ones who were told they didn’t fit. Here, difference becomes power, vulnerability becomes rebellion, and what was once hidden becomes holy.

This isn’t about being on display.

It’s about reclaiming what is used against us and making it sacred again.

This work sits within a wider body of art exploring similar themes.