Visual Art

Cracking Surveillance
Evani Radiya-Dixit, 2025
Acrylic and collage on canvas

While surveillance systems are often portrayed as improving security, these very systems track, police, and threaten the safety of Black and brown communities. This artwork Cracking Surveillance depicts resistance to surveillance through practices of community care, symbolized by flowering vines. Nurtured by the earth, sun, rain, and people, these vines crack and dismantle the cameras watching from above and create life beyond surveillance.

Gender Shades
Evani Radiya-Dixit, 2023
Acrylic and styrofoam on paper

This artwork Gender Shades depicts the artist’s own silhouette in relationship with the binaries of femininity and masculinity, represented by the colors pink and blue. Outside of the silhouette, these socially constructed binaries are rigid in their shape and material, crafted from styrofoam. In contrast, within the silhouette, these binaries begin to soften and melt. The silhouette is painted with shades created from pink and blue –– purple maroon, sunset red, light blue, midnight sky –– symbolic of all that exists between femininity and masculinity. The silhouette contains multitudes: While the binaries shape the way they think, see, and speak, they hold vibrant shades and start to morph the rigid binaries around them.