A text speaks from a position of power, therefore reading representations based on assumptions and stereotypes are disempowering and upsetting.

Migration is seen as a non-asset or a burden. Yet if you think about it, people have come from all over the world and have contributed to who we are today.

“There’s going to be a gap between your work and what you want your work to be: that’s fine, that’s how it should be. No one starts off at the top of their game.”

“You do what you can with what you have. But I think that if I had seen myself or someone who looked like me in any of these stories, it would have made such a difference in what I believed was out there for me.”

For Liminal Presents, Mike Eleven created fifty original artworks for our audience.