Red (Beta)

This sculpture is a sneak peek of my series Cycles of Fire, an exploration in cast bronze of trauma, mental disorders, and healing. Each figure from this series is a personification of a specific experience I have faced in relation to my neurodivergence and the domestic abuse I survived as a child. Creating this sculpture series was a practice both in self-validation and catharsis. The time I spent on each piece gave me the space I needed to experience each emotion without judgment, and at the end of the sculpting process I was left with a physical receptacle into which I could let the emotion go. It is my hope that anyone enjoying my sculptures can project their own experiences into these works and find the same catharsis, healing, and sense of empathy.

This piece is the beta version of my sculpture Red, which is a manifestation of resentment and rage in response to childhood abuse. There was a time when this anger served me, because I had to teach myself to not be okay with the way I was treated; but there came a time when this anger stopped steering me toward self-love and instead became self-poison. Making this sculpture enabled me to purge this poison.