This installation is an expression of my journey navigating diagnosis and living with a chronic illness. It is a space created with the complex emotions involved in mind. My heightened awareness of my body and the space it takes up has changed the way I experience the world. I no longer have the ability to ignore my body as a physical object and let it disappear from my mind. I am conscious of it always, especially with regard to the way it occupies physical space.

The space I have created attempts to illustrate my journey by encouraging the audience to experience the elements of the human body as objects separate from themselves. Through fleshifying familiar objects I invite the viewer to experience the body as something removed from its association with personhood. I am addressing the distance I feel from my physical body and the consumption it has on my thoughts. I hope to demonstrate how my relationship with my body has changed; how it has gone from being a part of my whole self to being an object separate from self which I interact and struggle with. It is an object which I use as a vessel but with an alarming loss of governability resulting in a separation of self which can no longer allows me to just simply be.

The space I have created is soft and inviting, but also uncomfortable and grotesque. It is a place of growth and learning, even as it is one of estrangement. I hope you will indulge your curiosity and embrace discomfort in this safe space designed for asking questions, and seeking answers. You may sit, you may read, you may feel, you may giggle. I only ask for gentle hands and open minds.