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A painting by Jemi Gale with a panda in one baby pink corner opposite a hot pink corner. The text on the painting reads: 'I don't remember anything except i love yoo'. The painting is next to blue satin ribbons by Jackie de Lacy that read in cursive, ‘Everyday, I don’t’.

Jemi Gale: donut king (paintings about love)

Audrey Pfister, Memo Review, June 2022

Understanding the donut as a metaphor of consumption we better see the importance of protection and perseverance against the outside ('Everyday I don’t') and the importance of embracing the outside of friendship and community ('You / Me / One / Hug'). Gale’s embrace of sugary, pop, 'grotty' aesthetics tries to hold understand love but not capture it, she lets it run wild, and runs with it.

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