Graphic designer, illustrator, and always happy to take on a challenge.
Her work captures contemporary social issues via camp - horror, history, fashion, and spirituality.
Sophia’s body of work is strategic, detail-oriented and multi-faceted. She is proficient in book covers, illustration, and amateur astrology.
Sophia graduated from Rutgers - Newark, majoring in Graphic Design and minoring in Art History.
She currently lives in New Jersey with her cats, Athena and Freya. When she’s not creating something, you can find her
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MONSTROUS WOMEN
In many classical myths from all around the world, an unnerving amount of villainous creatures are female or otherwise coded as women. These women are often depicted as monstrous hybrids; Ancient Greek Sirens are half-bird and lead men to their death with their alluring song, the Japanese Jorōgumo is a murderous snake that can shapeshift into a beautiful woman, and the Sphinx devours anyone who cannot answer her riddles.
Monsters indicate what is unacceptable in a society and what values are to be upheld. Women who demand too much are harpies and women who are too ugly are Medusa. If a woman is expected to stay quiet, she is grotesque for speaking up.
Women have been monsters throughout centuries’ worth of stories, across a multitude of cultures. These stories are a way to encode expectations and pass them on to the next generation, our children. A woman's place traditionally must not embrace traits that are heroic in men’s hands and must not aspire past what is allowed. On the contrary, WOMEN SHOULD STAND PROUDLY IN THEIR MONSTROUSNESS.
Monstrous Women is a transmedia project that dissects the lens of misogyny. In this project, Sanchez analyzes historical and myth-like narratives around womanhood, challenges slander with celebration, and finally encourages self-ownership
and pride.
Part I Part II Part III
In many classical myths from all around the world, an unnerving amount of villainous creatures are female or otherwise coded as women. These women are often depicted as monstrous hybrids; Ancient Greek Sirens are half-bird and lead men to their death with their alluring song, the Japanese Jorōgumo is a murderous snake that can shapeshift into a beautiful woman, and the Sphinx devours anyone who cannot answer her riddles.
Monsters indicate what is unacceptable in a society and what values are to be upheld. Women who demand too much are harpies and women who are too ugly are Medusa. If a woman is expected to stay quiet, she is grotesque for speaking up.
Women have been monsters throughout centuries’ worth of stories, across a multitude of cultures. These stories are a way to encode expectations and pass them on to the next generation, our children. A woman's place traditionally must not embrace traits that are heroic in men’s hands and must not aspire past what is allowed. On the contrary, WOMEN SHOULD STAND PROUDLY IN THEIR MONSTROUSNESS.
Monstrous Women is a transmedia project that dissects the lens of misogyny. In this project, Sanchez analyzes historical and myth-like narratives around womanhood, challenges slander with celebration, and finally encourages self-ownership
and pride.
Part I Part II Part III
2022
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