Untitled, Bristol, ink, and digital, 1242 x 682 pixels
Untitled, Bristol, ink, and projector, 11 x 17 x 12”
Untitled,Medium: newsprint, ink, cardboard, and string, 3 x 6”
Untitled, newsprint, ink, and cardboard, 8 x 7”
Untitled, Newsprint, ink, cardboard, and wire, 2244 x 1980 pixels
Artist Statement
This body of work overrides verbal language by utilizing visual imagery to illustrate anxiety. It is the intent that this work will create empathy through a better understanding of anxiety. Utilizing dioramas, projections, and stop animation, the viewer is faced with how it feels to have anxiety, the interaction with an anxious person, and the balance on the mental health of the family of a person with anxiety. Towards the end, some artworks shifted to a looser style. Those drawings took inspiration from artists such as James Castle, Eleanor Antin, and Stas Orlovski. These inspirations such as materials used and the abstraction in artworks. These drawings represent the shift to the idea of normalizing anxiety and showing that each case of anxiety is unique.
