an EXTREMELY delayed post of my two pieces side by side
left: “i spent a lot of time in waiting rooms” (2024)
right: “things got bluer as the rain poured” (2024)
almost a year later, and i’m still just as proud.
these paintings were produced to express both my personal experience struggling with mental illnesses and a restrictive eating disorder, and to address the systemic dysfunction attached.
this series demonstrates a narrative, one that is quietly descriptive of complex trauma and the difficulty to heal from that whilst stuck in a system that is hastily falling apart. it displays aspects of obsession and rigidity - and comfort within chaos paradoxically.
it’s about trying to identify your hope and safety, when it’s hidden in the folds - being unaware which folds to navigate. it’s about feeling trapped in a destructive cycle, moving between the environments that are presented here.
it’s about a long journey, a process and, beginnings and endings. and it’s about how no matter how much I tell you, there will always be more to say, more creases to explore and truths to uncover.
so make of that what you will ♡
