ARTIST STATEMENT
This collection addresses fear and the irrational in the context of 2020 as well as historically and culturally. It also speaks to the internal world and structured doctrine under which every individual operates. It addresses beliefs about bad luck and the compulsive nature attached to fear. It asks questions about why we have come to fear the things we do. It questions the validity of our fears. How much control do we have over our beliefs and ways of thinking? Are superstitions just collective fears within the contexts of which they are perpetuated?
As a person who struggles with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, when I started researching beliefs around bad luck I found a connection to a lot of my own personal obsessions and compulsions. I began to wonder if the label of “bad luck” was actually just fear manifested in fixation. The fixations reiterated over and over by the sufferer are obsessions. These obsessions serve as the fear origin and the catalyst for it’s perpetuation in the historical context of bad luck. The more these superstitions filter down generationally, the more irrational the fear becomes. The fear is further removed from its origin, yet continues to be inherited and subsequently still feared. The sufferer’s obsessions have mutated into the descendant’s compulsions. Bad luck blurs the line between neurotypical people engaging in a compulsion “just because” and non-neurotypical people engaging in a compulsion because they must; bad luck has become a universally accepted explanation for compulsive behavior.
Medium: Phototransfer prints with typewritten text
Price: $5 each
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