Eating Lies
$700.00
2.5 x 7 x 2.75”
Pen box, rings, satin, embroidery thread
Interior stitching and coffin flowers are handcrafted.
Deep Grooves
$700.00
2.5 x 7 x 9"
Pen box, cassette tape, satin, ribbon, paper
Contorted
$700.00
2.5 x 7 x 2.75"
Pen box, leather, satin, ribbon, paper
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$2,000.00 for set of three
While in the process of dissolving my 22-year marriage, I began uncovering and letting go of old patterns and beliefs about being in relationships. I had been operating out of the paradigm that marriage is a transactional agreement and that I had to earn love, instead of it being gifted freely and generously.
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We can think we are solely responsible for the success of our relationship, and if it isn't working, we need to try harder or do more, or somehow twist ourself into a different shape. Eventually, we are so twisted and tangled that we no longer recognize ourselves. Eating Lies, Deep Grooves and Contorted were created during this process.
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While creating these coffins I thought about how these patterns came to be, what it would take to unknot the fear and stop contorting myself to please others, and what it looks like when a healthier pattern is in place. Creating this artwork was about laying these patterns to rest and provided a sense of completion that was integral to the process of saying goodbye to this marriage and shifting the unhealthy relational patterns that had been in place for so long.