Conor told Buzzfeed that he was horrified by some of the comments he saw on Caitlyn’s Twitter and that’s what prompted him to make the piece. In the wake of Jenner’s coming out, he took note of the unfortunate number of hateful tweets that the reality star was being sent.
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When Caitlyn Jenner covered Vanity Fair back in June, the response on social media was overwhelmingly positive.
Artist Conor Collins created a stunning portrait of Caitlyn Jenner out of the words of the angriest and most vile tweets she received after her debut earlier this year.
This isn’t the first time Collins has taken on a project like this. Check out the portrait below, and tell us what you think!
For more of Collins’s work, visit his website.
Taking to his own Twitter, Conor thanked those who shared the piece for their support. He said he didn’t want to hide the darkness and persecution the trans community faces.
“To get through it I ended up working through half a bottle of whiskey and didn’t stop working on the painting till the small hours of the morning. It just wouldn’t be fair”.
“When I saw these I wanted to show them because it is a reality of what trans people experience every day”, Collins writes in the email, citing the death of trans woman Tamara Dominguez, who was murdered after being run over repeatedly by a vehicle in Missouri.
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“For every person who sees it another person is shown the persecution and real danger trans people face”, he writes. “It was something much sadder… that drove me”. But, in his eyes, “I find the more hate mail I receive… the better job I am probably doing”. “I’m always stuck on the outside and when I see other people out there being picked on I’m scared for them”.
