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My name is Ciona. I am a queer multimedia artist and writer from Birmingham, UK, and sole owner of this site.

Creative Inspiration

The mediums through which I express my work vary depending on which I feel best fit the content- the subject matter, and what I wish to convey. I create in this way to mirror the shades of life, and the diverse means available for communicating the experience of living. Here, you will find poetry, in its variant forms, photographs, videos, sounds, articles, and essays covering an array of interests, and personal thoughts about the world in which we live. I also communicate through dance, and handicrafts, including, but not limited to, painting with watercolours and acrylics, textural collage, printmaking, making jewellery, and weaving. I enjoy creating digital graphics, and working with other artists on projects which employ a variety of media and modes of sensory communication.

My photographic work is comprised centrally of abstract and expressionist self-portraits. The range in emotion I am able to convey using my body, often in the nude, with my face and head obscured, or omitted completely, is freeing: it allows me to be able to commune with life and its nature as a feeling form and being, rather than a ‘personality’.

Personal Background

I am a third-generation British Indian, of Panjabi descent: the eldest (on my mother’s side) and only (on my father’s side) granddaughter and grandchild of Indian and Pakistani-born immigrants. All four of my grandparents came to England as British citizens, from India (mother’s side), and India via Kenya (father’s side).

Identity is complex and incredibly personal. It is a subject that recurs in my work, in one form or other, and I like to explore its realms and varied manifestations, within society and within myself. I am proud of where I come from and of the elements, both harmonies and conflicts, that comprise me. I write what I feel- often, this is conveyed through lightness, words related to darker emotions, or a concoction of both.
Life is full of vastness, complexity, and nuance, and I like to honour all of its gravity and levity.

I am an active sex work advocate. I believe that it should be decriminalised, and that any laws and regulations should be made using the informed and immeasurably valuable lived experience of sex workers. I am a vocal anti-racist and LGBTQIA+ ally, in favour of the abolition of the monarchy, and all structures that are rooted in upholding cis-hetero-patriarchal, capitalist supremacy.

Stay, take a look around.

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All content my own unless otherwise stated.

Thanks for stopping by,

Ciona x.