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paintings, zines, books & other liberation materials by V Woods
PAINTINGS
Black psychedelic becoming - no.1, acrylic, watercolor & collage on paper, 2025.
Black Psychedelic Becoming
I paint a way through generational recovery. I see the canvas as a place to articulate the cosmology of my people - past, present, and future -through my lens as a queer, disabled, neurodiverse person. I’ve kept this practice protected for most of my life. Sharing it publicly now is part of the becoming. In this way, my work captures what reclaiming belonging looks like for marginalized people and how recovery feels on an individual nervous system connected to something ancestral and vast.
Black people have made starting over a sacred art, and this body of work is that inheritance in color and abstract form: diaspora, cosmology, and recovery moving through acrylic, watercolor, collage, and linocut.
These paintings are part of my personal collection. Sales are negotiated on a very limited basis. Inquire by email.
Black psychedelic becoming - no.3, acrylic on canvas, 2026.
Black psychedelic becoming - no.2, acrylic & block print on paper, 2024.
Black psychedelic becoming - no.4, acrylic on canvas, 2025.
Black psychedelic becoming - no.5, acrylic on canvas, 2024.
Black psychedelic becoming - no.6, acrylic on canvas, 2026.
ZINES
the euphoria lab zine
Your practical field guide for brains that see small moments as both connected and singularly beautiful - ADHD, trauma-impacted, neurodiverse, queer, and marginalized brains that can hold the big vision, but easily loose the thread.
Each volume pairs art with philosophy and practical strategy in a usable form: a channel for moving shit through, up, and out. It’s the tool we all needed but didn’t know could exist, something to give you both scientific and ancestral language for what’s happening, what your brain-body is doing, and what to try, in hand when you actually need it.
Digital download — free to substack paid members
Print — $25, made to order
Paid subscribers of The Euphoria Lab receive every new volume as it's released.
books
"Whiskey Sour Moon"
published in midnight & indigo: Sixteen Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers, Issue 15 (2025)
As Earth collapses, an astronaut counts down to a lunar launch while her mind pulls between a great love and one last reckoning with her father. Speculative fiction, in an anthology of sixteen Black women conjuring futures beyond our reach.
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PLAYLISTS
Music is therapy, ya’ll. Nuff said.