Self Portrait

Viola Silvi
“Self Portrait”, 2022
twenty-two printed colouring books of twenty-two pages each

Each page depicts a scene of violence towards animals, stylistically characterized by a children’s coloring book. Each drawing recalls the cruel reality of farming animals to cover our food and fashion supply. The artist colored eighteen pages within a single printed example as they spent most of their life consuming animal products, before becoming vegan at the age of eighteen. The work marks the end of contributing towards a violence on animals.