Overarching Love
Watercolor Painting. With their backs to the viewer, the genders of the couple are not apparent, but an overarching rainbow provides a hint.
Identity?
Watercolor and Ink. Stippled with hundreds of little question marks, Identity? represents the questioning flag and the confusion many queer people have as they navigate their identity.
“An underlying pulse that breathes color into her art is queer identity"
Simon Clarke, Writer for Naked Magazine
From “Rainbow, Paint, and Jewels: A Business in Art”
Bi Bi Birdie
Acrylic Paint. Bi Bi Birdie plays on a visual pun and then uses the colors of the bisexual flag to represent bisexual or biromantic people.
Sea of Pride
Color Pencil. A peaceful tranquility is shown, with each of the fish representing pride flags coexisting freely.
Fluidity
Multi-media. This collage-style piece represents the genderfluid flag with the colors and its depiction of things that are fluid and change.
Acrylic Paint and Color Pencil
We Bleed Pink, White, and Blue
All real quotes from newspapers are penciled out in the outline of the state of Texas. They focus on issues concerning the state’s transphobia, homophobia, sexism, and racism. Roses, done in the colors of the transgender flag, frame the page, sprouting skulls. The outline of Texas bleeds, symbolizing the harm marginalized communities face in the state of Texas.
Pan City
Watercolor and Ink. Pink, yellow, and blue glow behind a scene of a busy city. The pansexual or panromantic flags are represented here with the colors and the city representing ‘pan’ or all.
Safe Space
Pencil and Color Pencil. Finding places where you feel seen and respected are so important, and something like putting up a pride flag at your business can feel like a shining beacon of safety.
Gravity and Gender Free
Acrylic Paint. Done in the colors of the nonbinary flag, the person floats through space, free from the gender binary.
Acrylic Paint
Under the Rainbow
Under the Rainbow pays homage to many of Mikayla’s other pride pieces, including the rainbow and island from Overarching Love, the clouds from Bi Bi Birdie, the transgender flag-color roses from We Bleed Pink, White, and Blue, the storefront with its pride flag from Safe Space, and the pride flag-colored fish from Sea of Pride. The pink and blue columns represent the choices society presents, but the nonbinary flag going down the middle (represented in the colors of the cars and road), along with the fish floating freely show there are more options.
Get Loud
Mikayla was hired to be a live painter at San Jose’s 2024 Pride, with their theme of “Get Loud.” The 7ft x 3ft piece celebrates the pride community, amplifying many LGBTQ+ genders and sexualities with the colors of their pride flags in the form of music notes.
