
Survivor’s Guilt ✶ 2021
“Even the thickest skin has its breaking point”
Survivor’s Guilt was once the first piece in an ongoing series titled Having Looked Both Ways, a collection of digital artworks that explore the depths of internal and external unrest. With this body of work, I set out to encapsulate the tumultuous state of being one often finds him-/her-/themself in when dealing with burden & despair. The wealth of emotions, or lack therof. The viscerality, the crudeness.
In other words, this is my rawest attempt at synthesizing, reflecting on, and coping with a year bellowing in obscurity.
At the time that this piece was created, I was very wrapped-up in making sense of the year that was 2020-’21. I have since come to terms with much of what I/we underwent, individually & communally, allowing myself the space and grace to continuously heal within such a complicated process. (I hope the same is true or will be true for whoever reads this!) With that being said, Having Looked Both Ways has taken form as something wildly different, something that I couldn’t have imagined a year ago. I look forward to sharing it with the world!
Survivor’s Guilt was once the first piece in an ongoing series titled Having Looked Both Ways, a collection of digital artworks that explore the depths of internal and external unrest. With this body of work, I set out to encapsulate the tumultuous state of being one often finds him-/her-/themself in when dealing with burden & despair. The wealth of emotions, or lack therof. The viscerality, the crudeness.
In other words, this is my rawest attempt at synthesizing, reflecting on, and coping with a year bellowing in obscurity.
At the time that this piece was created, I was very wrapped-up in making sense of the year that was 2020-’21. I have since come to terms with much of what I/we underwent, individually & communally, allowing myself the space and grace to continuously heal within such a complicated process. (I hope the same is true or will be true for whoever reads this!) With that being said, Having Looked Both Ways has taken form as something wildly different, something that I couldn’t have imagined a year ago. I look forward to sharing it with the world!