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Why Maya frames her distorted memories

Picture: Willstokesphotography

AT first glance, the faces in Maya Davis-Stokes paintings appear a little unsettling.

There are eyes sliding off-centre and mouths pulled into ambiguous expressions.

But, look closer, and the distortions begin to feel deliberate.

Her new solo exhibition, Places, Faces and Spaces I Have Occupied , runs until March 30 at the Stryx Gallery in Birmingham.

It is, she said, an autobiographical story with distorted faces and memories .

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