Emotions must be caged. End of year show piece. About the piece.




About the piece

I guess I journeyed to this piece whilst trying to work through some past trauma. Through my mental health, living with it and adapting to it and how it feels to live daily life in it. Trauma from toxic relationships albeit romantic or family. Restrictions and societal rules. My childhood and upbringing and on the fall back of this trying to adult correctly. Rejection of 2 "fathers". I spent most of my thinking through in a bath. Surrounded by an encompassing amount of warm water. This feels like I am back in the womb. I am safe here. I can process here. Most of my revelations on my own troubles are resolved or at least investigated deeply and with some sight of an answer here, in this space. 




"Thigh meat" Is acrylic on cardboard. 404x40. This shows my view when I am in the bath. 




"Keep going" The larger canvas is me expressing the struggle to reach a peaceful state in my life when there are so many demands, wants and needs from others. People that want to drag you down and blocks we have to push through on our path.

 


"Lil dawg" mask. Vulnerability can show itself in many forms. 

 



"Sad face" Is a stylised self portrait denoting depression through the eyes. 

  




"Empty" Two "rusty" cages. Galvanised metal cannot be rusted. I tried. I tried hard. So I constructed the cubes and painted them rusty. If you make it, fake it. 

Two empty voids. That hold nothing important ,,,, because it is caged. Unwanted. 


 



"Bath thinking" is a bright acrylic abstract pour on a 40x40 piece of ply wood, with a pencil drawing in the foreground of myself sat in the bath. Here I am holding a noticeable depressed and vulnerable space, this was a dark time in my life after surviving a mentally abusive relationship.






"Untitled" Acrylic on 40x40 cardboard. Being in the bath is my happy place. A thinking place and a powerful place for me. 

 



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