Linearity Doesn't Exist
Acrylic and chalk on canvas | Black light reactive
Tania Elizabeth
New York City, 2025
In black light, fluorescent lines impose order—grids, constraints, expectations. But beneath them, exposed in bright light, soft chalk curves resist: foggy doodles, flowing shapes, and the silhouette of a woman with multiple colors in her blood.
"Linearity Doesn’t Exist" is both a refusal and a remembering—of lives lived in brightness outside the margins, of beauty that doesn’t follow ratios, and of liberation through visibility on our own terms.
This work challenges the systems that flatten identity into averages, asking: Who gets to define what fits? A meditation on race, belonging, freedom, and a reminder that life doesn’t advance in straight lines.
Tania Elizabeth (she/her) is a mixed-race Latina with a science brain and an artist’s soul. A lifelong experimenter, she moves playfully across mediums—from paint to resin to tech-infused sculptures. With color, texture, and bold intuition, her work invites you to ditch the binary and explore the full, messy, magical spectrum of your humanity.