Weight

This work visualises the physicality of emotional weight. It addresses the invisible burdens inherited through trauma - familial, cultural, personal - and makes them visible. The string is both connection and restraint.

The weight is literal, because healing is not metaphorical. "Weight" is a visual articulation of trauma that resists metaphor. This work was created to externalise the emotional burdens that cannot be seen, only carried.

At the heart of the piece is a fragile, painted form - a symbol innocence, vulnerability, memory, and self - suspended above a tool as a literal weight. The tool represents masculinity. Thread connects the two, drawing tension across the canvas both physically and symbolically.

The materials were chosen deliberately: soft colours to create comfort, delicate paint strokes to suggest care - and then thread and gravity to disrupt it.

This piece speaks to personal experience of grief, abuse, violence, and survival. The kind of survival that continues long after the moment of harm has passed. By making the emotional load tangible, I hope to create space for reflection on how trauma is carried, inherited, and embodied.

It is not about release. It is about recognition.

"Weight" asks what does it mean to be soft and composed, while something heavy is still pulling on you?

Unveiled Perspectives 2025

Being part of the Unveiled Perspectives degree show has been an emotional and surreal experience. My artwork, Weight, was displayed among so many bold, expressive pieces - and yet, seeing people pause in front of mine, engage with it, even take photos, reminded me that quieter work can still resonate deeply.

This piece came from a very personal place, and to share it in a space like this, with others connecting to it in their own way, has been something I'll carry with me for a long time. I'm proud of what I've made, and even more proud of the vulnerability it took to share it.

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