Koak

Koak creates emotionally charged portraits, often of female figures, imbuing her subjects with a sense of agency and inner life to challenge patriarchal views. In Self-Portrait w/ Flowers, Koak touches on themes of stress and fragility. The image presents a distressed figure with wide eyes, peering intensely from behind a web of cracks crisscrossing a vase filled with deconstructed flowers. The vase, as does the transparent figure within it, seems on the verge of bursting.