Primary Medium

Sculpture

Address

79 West Street
Brooklyn, 11222

Artist Statement

Your happiness is without fulfillment, a conflict without resolution. An oscillation between holding onto a single moment that can’t and won’t last and making sense of a repetition that's in search of a home. If you are yearning for happiness, it can be impeded by its very definition. In simultaneity, you're walking blindly towards a utopian future and expelling yourself from an origin that you now wish to return to. Maybe that’s why all the bad stuff feels so right. It’s you rescuing a nostalgia that may have never existed, like a hope that can only exist in the past. The meds work. But you can't make it make sense. The meds don't work. Now you're lost at last but you're living on borrowed time. You need a place to rest. But you are enough! You constructed a body in rebellion, built on a pedestal of perfection, precarity, and protection. You followed the course syllabus and listed your accomplishments. Your kinks are a prescription to resist the rationalization of all experience. Yes! You got this. Being human is hard, sort of. But it’s possible, and not permanent, and you’ll find smiles inside.

Links

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