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Whilst getting an ECG test last year, I was likened to a monkey by the NHS nurse of whom was carrying out the procedure. As one would expect, I was taken aback.
In response to this notion of subtle or not so subtle prejudice; I seek to take ownership of an insulted that I have experienced on multiple occasions as a young ethnic male. By assuming the animalistic pose of a monkey holding a banana, which also acts as motif of masculinity with the clear phallic symbolism, I attempt to use humour as a rhetoric that will bring my experience into a new paradigm.

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fine liner pen

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Like A Monkey (2017) Ink drawing
by Habib Hajallie

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Whilst getting an ECG test last year, I was likened to a monkey by the NHS nurse of whom was carrying out the procedure. As one would expect, I was taken aback.
In response to this notion of subtle or not so subtle prejudice; I seek to take ownership of an insulted that I have experienced on multiple occasions as a young ethnic male. By assuming the animalistic pose of a monkey holding a banana, which also acts as motif of masculinity with the clear phallic symbolism, I attempt to use humour as a rhetoric that will bring my experience into a new paradigm.

Materials used:

fine liner pen

Tags:
#portrait #figurative #fine art #art #art on paper #male figure #figures #pen and ink #masculine #pen drawing 
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I am an honouree of The Forbes 30 under 30 list for Europe 2023 and the winner of The UK New Artist of the Year. In March 2022 I was... Read more

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