Happy Thanksgiving to all my people out there dealing with addiction. I know it might be hard to feel thankful when you’ve got to shoot up to make it thru the day but don’t give up, stay strong.
This was the first work I completed for my solo exhibition, Flood. The whole idea behind the show was to explore emotional states. The water in all the works is a metaphor for our inner workings: our thoughts our feelings and emotions. They’re unpredictable and chaotic, yet continuous and endless like the waves. So to try fight against them, is like trying to hold water with your bare hands. But, what if we surrendered ourselves to these floods of emotions? What if we let all of those feelings flood in, and simply go with the flow. To feel fear, to feel calmness, to feel love. To feel it all completely, but know that it’ll be okay.
Let’s Dance with the Dark was about fear and doubt, how it can weave itself all around you and cripple you until you’re powerless. But there is comfort in knowing that even through all the fear, you’re not alone.
