Season 1, 2022
Before this was a painting, it was someone else's.
Janae grew up in a family rooted in waste management. Her father would come home with things others had discarded, and to their family, those things were never trash. They were treasures. Objects that had lived whole lives before arriving in their hands. There was something sacred in that, the intimacy of holding something that had already loved and been loved, of knowing it carried a story you would never fully know.
Childhood Dream began as an old painting of horses, found at her parents' transfer station. Someone had let it go. Janae brought it back.
Underneath everything you see now, those horses still exist. Buried under layers of gesso, acrylic, resin, and the kind of marks that only come out when you stop trying to be careful. The swirling orange, the electric magenta, the white lines looping and colliding like a thought you can't finish — all of it built on top of something that was never hers to begin with, until she made it completely, irrevocably hers.
This is a painting about ownership. About the feeling of moving through life like you are borrowing it, like nothing quite belongs to you, and then one day picking up a spray can and deciding that this, right here, is yours. Loud. Messy. Real. Hideous in places. Gorgeous in others. Exactly like being alive.
This is the second piece in the XO Sufren collection. It carries the full biography of where this work comes from and who made it.
At 3'9 x 5'2, it is one of the largest and most kinetic canvases in Season 1. It does not sit quietly on a wall. It fills a room with the energy of someone finally, fully arriving.
Gesso, Acrylic Paint, Acrylic Dye, Acrylic Varnish, Resin Pour, Acrylic Marker, Spray Paint on canvas.
3'9 x 5'2 in.
Original, one of one.
Season 1, 2022
Before this was a painting, it was someone else's.
Janae grew up in a family rooted in waste management. Her father would come home with things others had discarded, and to their family, those things were never trash. They were treasures. Objects that had lived whole lives before arriving in their hands. There was something sacred in that, the intimacy of holding something that had already loved and been loved, of knowing it carried a story you would never fully know.
Childhood Dream began as an old painting of horses, found at her parents' transfer station. Someone had let it go. Janae brought it back.
Underneath everything you see now, those horses still exist. Buried under layers of gesso, acrylic, resin, and the kind of marks that only come out when you stop trying to be careful. The swirling orange, the electric magenta, the white lines looping and colliding like a thought you can't finish — all of it built on top of something that was never hers to begin with, until she made it completely, irrevocably hers.
This is a painting about ownership. About the feeling of moving through life like you are borrowing it, like nothing quite belongs to you, and then one day picking up a spray can and deciding that this, right here, is yours. Loud. Messy. Real. Hideous in places. Gorgeous in others. Exactly like being alive.
This is the second piece in the XO Sufren collection. It carries the full biography of where this work comes from and who made it.
At 3'9 x 5'2, it is one of the largest and most kinetic canvases in Season 1. It does not sit quietly on a wall. It fills a room with the energy of someone finally, fully arriving.
Gesso, Acrylic Paint, Acrylic Dye, Acrylic Varnish, Resin Pour, Acrylic Marker, Spray Paint on canvas.
3'9 x 5'2 in.
Original, one of one.
