Tori Tinsley’s visual art is inspired by bonds with her mother, who suffered from dementia, and her children. Her cartoonish, nude figures inhabit vibrant, textured environments, expressing the emotional complexity and vulnerability of caregiving: longing, disbelief, discomfort, and hope, steeped in tenderness, dark humor, and the persistent desire to love and be loved.

In this film, Tori talks about the recurring, delightful, cartoonish figures in her work, her personal experiences as a caregiver, and how the dark humor and delight in her pieces relates to the emotional complexity and vulnerability of caregiving.

To learn more about Tori’s mail art and accompanying film by āññā duo, go here.

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Show Notes

• See Tori's mail art

• Learn more about Tori

• Scroll to see work from Tori's Hug series and recent romance-novel-inspired paintings

• See Tori's Airport installation

• See the trailer for the film paired with Tori's mail art