Indie 184’s multimedia paintings combine brightly colored, cheerful graffiti and pop-culture patterns with iconic photographs of movie stars, historic figures and celebrities – most of them beautiful, powerful women. The paintings invariably evoke pleasure. Beneath the immediate aesthetic impact of her work, however, lie messages of defiance. Graffiti is a defiant act by nature, but combining it with images of famous beautiful women the artist can make further associations between power, beauty, femininity and defiance of the existing order. Thus, she may ask us to draw a conclusion that strong independent women are beautiful.