STABILITY

Anxiety, depression, and a host of other mental and emotional conditions, even if they were not recognized as such, are a reality for many. There is often a mistaken interchangeability between defining and stigmatizing a person as their illness, rather than identifying them as an individual who is suffering from one. The correct method of referral is known as “Person First” which aims to take away the dehumanization of individuals with mental or emotional disabilities.

The figures in my work occupy space in a variety of ways.  They can loom awkwardly, cower timidly, and stride forward clumsily.  In every case they move with trepidation, embody uncertainty, and hide behind their materiality and physical girth.

I think of these faceless beings as internal feelings reveal themselves in physical ways. The body language of these abstracted figures asks for self reflection while functioning in a way that is more bodily than cognitive. Vulnerable in existence, stability of the forms themselves is brought into question. Long spindly legs depict fragility while squatted bodies represent ineptitude. These figures stem from a state of being I am all too familiar with.