Waxing & waning

Waxing & Waning I, II, III — 2014

Each of these works were created after experiencing a physical trauma to my body. It seemed no other work would come forth until I processed my feelings around my body, each one, a bundle of emotions, internal imaginings, coming into a physical form through wool and wax. It is literally stitched from a deep welling within, a meditation on the fragility and resilience of the human form.

Bodies are a beautiful and disgusting collection of interworking parts that form a vast landscape comprised of a multitude of fragments. That we are all here for a limited unknown time is marked by a decline in the functionality of those microscopic element. And illness, both mental and physical is a part of every living thing. We are ourselves and that self cannot be separated from the body into which we were born. No matter how we try to transform ourselves, we cannot escape our fundamental, physical self. But, we can change how our bodies function by what we eat and say and sleep and even where we call home. Our body dictates and responds to how we live our lives. Let us live them well.