Collage attempts 🧑‍🩰

Now, during Pride, I find myself returning to these lines from Ocean Vuong’s poem Not Even This: “I used to be a fag now I’m a checkbox. The pen tip jabbed in my back, I feel the mark of progress.”

Fragments of “olho trêmulo” by Victor Fío, 2026 — embroidery and stitching on tea bags, 50 cm x 20 cm.

Ocean 🌊