Madeleine Sinnock is a multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Their work spans plastic, textiles, and digital drawings to explore themes of femininity, cultural power, empathy, and the subconscious. Bright colors, cheerful motifs, and alluring materials encourage viewers to find joy in the work, while distorted images and abject forms belie a more sinister truth. Elusive and illusory comfort is central to Sinnock’s exploration of the ways in which femininity is forced onto bodies and subjectivities: whereby something that feels comforting, nostalgic, and even humorous, can be the source of deep melancholia and discontent. Drawing from their experience as a nonbinary person, the practice addresses a simultaneous disgust of femininity and the desire to find comfort within it.