I FAILED TO KEEP YOU SAFE AGAIN unfolds through overlapping techniques, where layers of text, figuration, and abstraction intertwine across the canvas’s fractured surface. The painting is an admission of powerlessness, a response to the repeated loss of trans community members and the failure of society to protect them. Anger, grief, and frustration drive the work forward, abandoning formal cohesion in favour of a chaotic, urgent visual language that mirrors the emotional reality it confronts.

I FAILED TO KEEP YOU SAFE AGAIN, 2025
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
Acrylic, oil pastel, pen, ink on canvas
128 x 110 cm

