"how many cute girls do you have to draw before you figure out how to become one?”
by Pedro Tinoco
⋅˚₊‧ 𐙚 ‧₊˚ ⋅🏰 this piece is part of PRINCESS, our second digital collection of works. PRINCESS responds to the problematic of modern princessdom through pieces by theorists, writers, and artists. 🏰⋅˚₊‧ 𐙚 ‧₊˚ ⋅
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“how many cute girls do you have to draw before you figure out how to become one?” is the title of an on going series of drawings and image collection. It draws inspiration from Cute Accelerationism by Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic, who argue that cuteness - typically associated with femininity & traditionally “girlish” aesthetics - is not merely softness or submission, but a radical aesthetic strategy—coded, tactical, and capable of disrupting dominant structures of identity, desire, and embodiment. Cuteness, in this light, becomes a kind of camouflage and critique; a way of inhabiting femininity that is subversive, & politically charged.
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Pedro Tinoco
I am an artist & researcher with a recent master s degree (LUCA School of Arts Brussels 2024). My thesis digestion & girlblogging delves into gender theory & ruminates over diaristic narratives often aligned with Laurien Fournier's take on autotheory where the personal is also political. My approach is a fully DIY mindset where I collect my own waste & reimagine it into a primordial soup of image-making. This process has led to the creation of work that embodies a reflection not only on material excess but mostly a conflict in permanent actualization with my own surplus as a cyber-junkie - a process of accumulation diffusion.
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