Having a body is horrifying, especially when it doesn’t feel like your own. If you were stuck in a body that doesn’t agree with who you are, what lengths would you go to to fix it? If you were stuck in a world that was not made for you, what would you do to break free from it? I am not a stranger to these feelings of disconnect, and I aim to represent them in these works.
An empty, uncaring world almost consumes an uncanny human figure, just adjacent to what a person “should” look like.
Their world is not kind to them.
Looking outwards, they notice a world that is different, one not as cold and dark.
Maybe this will be different.
They reach forward, pushing on the barrier between us.
Maybe this world will let me be different too.
Breaking through the canvas and into our world, they begin to crawl their way out.
Maybe this world can set me free.
This world will not be kind to them.
On display at the Hera Gallery in Wakefield RI from April 5th - May 3rd