Artist Statement — Violet Newborn

Violet Newborn (b. May 27, 1979, Inglewood, CA) is a Memphis-based visual artist, activist, and founder of Color Your Story Onto Mine (CYSOM). Artist Statement — Violet Newborn

I am an abolitionist of despair.

My work lives at the intersection of trauma and transcendence, where beauty becomes a weapon against cruelty and compassion becomes a revolutionary act. I create from the place where my own darkness was not bypassed, but transformed — where the inner executioner became the inner midwife, delivering me back to myself.

The Newborn Method emerged from this transformation. It is not a technique. It is a testimony.

It is truth + compassion + accountability + creative expression + spiritual grounding —

a pathway that goes straight to the inner child in any human being.

My art is a confession, a mirror, a contract of forgiveness, a rope of light thrown backward for others to climb. Through expressive arts, I dismantle inner prisons long before I ever speak about abolishing the ones built from concrete and steel. My work stands between brokenness and possibility, trauma and recovery, punishment and redemption.

I use colors, texture, and visual storytelling as acts of spiritual midwifery — helping people birth the parts of themselves that were silenced by violence, shame, or survival.

I am a social fine art activist, a survivor alchemist, and a spiritual medium of compassion — not the psychic kind, but the kind who walks into the darkest places of the human soul without becoming darkness. Instead, I ignite healing.

Through my art, I reclaim what was stolen.

Through my workshops, I restore what was forgotten.

Through my presence, I liberate what was imprisoned.

My life is not just a story of surviving.

It is a prophecy of what becomes possible when pain is transformed into purpose.

Everything I create — every brushstroke, every workshop, every journal, every conversation — is a liberation ritual.

A quiet revolution.

A movement of mercy.

My art does not predict change.

It causes it.