Artwork / Friend Request / SiriOm

acrylic painting of SiriOm Singh, painted by Lambertville artist Gwenn Seemel
Gwenn Seemel
SiriOm
2022
acrylic on paper
7 x 5 inches

$500

SiriOm calls everyone “babe” no matter their gender, and it makes me happy. Until I moved to Lambertville, street harassment and old men telling me to smile had been way too big a part of my life. Here in the LBV, the blissful hole left by that misogynistic garbage is filled by the warmth of strangers and SiriOm’s ubiquitous “babe.”

You can watch the making of SiriOm’s portrait.