From Good Girl to Art Rebel – One Nude Drawing at a Time with Michelle Dovey | 026

She left a penis off her sketch – and it cracked open a decades-long pattern of shame she didn’t even know she was carrying.

When Michelle Dovey sat down to draw a statue of Apollo in Florence, she didn’t mean to leave something out. But there it was – a blank spot where the genitals should’ve been. This accidental omission turned into a revelation: her artistic gaze had been unconsciously edited by years of shame, modesty, and good girl conditioning. So what did she do? She started drawing cocks. A hundred of them. 

The result is her wildly unfiltered, beautifully rebellious Naked Man Project – and in this episode, Michelle talks about art, body image, unshaming the male form, and what happens when you start seeing people (and yourself) through curious, compassionate eyes. It’s funny, raw, and full of unexpected tenderness. Just like her drawings.

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“I didn’t realize my gaze was edited – until that blank space showed me what I’d been too afraid to see.”

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Instagram: @michelledoveyartist
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LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/michelle-dovey-07a630378
Website: https://liberate.michelledovey.com