2021
15.75 x 15.0 inches
Design: Mariela Scafati

Drawing upon Something Broke, Mariela Scafati’s installation at Storefront as well as her work as one of the founders of Serigrafistas Queer (Queer Silkscreeners), Storefront produced custom t-shirts and tote bags with an original design by Scafati that says “I just connected to disconnect – I just disconnected to connect.”

“A self portrait in reds and pinks,” offered Scafati. Something Broke is a diary of the personal and the collective, in the form of paintings that are both poems and protest signs. It’s a window into the artist’s body as a painter, a teacher, an activist, a queer silkscreener, and – as of recently – a mother. It’s a spectrum of visceral crimsons.

These reds and pinks emerge from the artist’s bonds of affection through activism, and from an entanglement of art, politics, and life. They are windows that frame the subjectivities of a body that seeks to inhabit other ways of being.