Savanna

Savanna, 2026
Acrylic on Canvas
10 x 10 x 1.5 in

Signed on Back

Model: Savanna

This work is part of The Tracy Piper's "SEEN Volume 5" the fifth iteration of a collaborative art project of 50 eye paintings that were made during the Spring of 2025. For this series, the artist organized an open call for her collectors, fans, and fellow artists to be featured as one of her models. Each participant answered the same question: What does it mean to feel seen? Each painting and response is featured in the artist’s sixth book aptly titled "SEEN Volume 5".

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL SEEN?

"To be seen, once, was to be witnessed by others. As a young woman, I wanted to be pretty, to be wanted. My worth measured in my size. I was a reflection held up for someone else's eyes.

As I began to age, the gaze wandered. And in its absence I felt myself go pale; left out of the light. Slowly losing my color. Blank.

But invisibility, it turns out, is a kind of freedom.

The less I perform for a world that wants me young and small and palatable, the more I find myself standing in the room of my own life.

Now I ask: What do I desire?

I desire boundaries. I desire to deeply see the real me. I desire to be unapologetically myself. This is real power. This is freedom. This is what it means to be seen." — Savanna

HANGING & CARE

Artwork is ready to hang on the wall; hanging wire is secured on the back (nail and hook needed). Dust raw canvas with a clean, soft brush and HEPA-filtered vacuum to clean. Using a new, clean brush prevents transfer of grime from previous dustings.