Lauralee Benjamin

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Written By Yana Tokes

Meet Lauralee Benjamin is an Artist, Business Owner, and Content Creator from Queens, New York. Her main medium is Acrylic paint on canvas where she then creates a digitized copy to transfer onto her merchandise and content for social media. She has a cult following for her art and a monthly subscription lighter club because we stoners always need lighters. Her style is controversial to say the least, but that's what we LOVE about her art most. Our YANA Talent Agent, Gina Joubin, found this gem of a human being and brought her into the network of YANA Creatives. We have worked with LauraLee on showcasing her artwork at a YANA Full Moon Festival and we continued the relationship by creating a collab art piece that is now on lighters we sell at our YANA shop. 

Our mission is to connect creatives to different communities and new perspectives. Lauralee’s non-conformist style makes you think twice about your own idea of sexy and expands this concept for so many. She provides a prohibited view point to a larger audience through her art and provokes your imagination and emotions. LauraLee gives pussy power a new meaning. 

“I have always been interested in the ways women harness and express their sexuality. In my work, I explore the connections between sex, love, lust, pain, revenge and control, based on my own experiences. I use images appropriated from pornography to hijack the patriarchal sentiments and flip them into feminist narratives. I hope that others, women in particular, can relate to the positive and negative emotions I'm trying to convey.”

Titled “Manifest Your Destiny”

YANA x LauraLee Collab Project for YANA Lighters
Acrylic Paint on Canvas

The collab art piece titled, Manifest Your Destiny, is a combination of the classic LauraLee style of the blue-green hand fingering the YANA universe style. The concept was created to depict the importance of cultivating your mind and manifesting your own destiny through self love and following your intuition. LauraLee's blue green hand style reminds us that color does not matter and we are all uniquely different. We can ALL see ourselves in the image when color is distorted and does not matter.

Yana Tokes
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