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I CAN: ANXIETY

SOLD (private collection)
Sculpture, 2017
Polymer clay, acrylics, wire, tin can
22 H x 11 W x 11 cm

This sculpture is about anxiety and the feeling of breathlessness. It is about the difficulty of breathing and the sensation of suffocating. A spiraling growth of blue mushrooms is being strangled by metallic wire.

Part of the series “I Can”, where I systematically grow erratic and surrealistic natural shapes onto tin cans. The dialogue between each can and growth expresses a different emotion, mood or state of the mind. They are personal and talk about myself, putting into shape what I feel or go through. They are very intuitive work whereI let my hands and the clay decide where to go after a rough sketch of the emotion I want to materialize.