“freaks by me” was created by Mia Eliopoulos, aka “me”. The 28 year old Lowell - based artist graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2020 with a degree in Art Education. "freaks by me" has been featured at various markets including Artists and Fleas in Brooklyn NY, and can now be found in stores across the East Coast including Battery Street Jeans in Burlington VT, Diversity Consign in Boston, and Hive and Forge in Salem and Lowell MA.
The artist’s collection of “freaks” shows the viewer in strongly expressed terms that it is beautiful to have both physical and psychological faults, and encourages celebrating our uniqueness. Through her work the artist reinforces that there is a range of “feeling” that we all experience and identify with. We all have our own definition of “beauty”, and to the artist, “freaks” are beautiful. The artist is the “freak” that she depicts and so too are all those that relate to her work.