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The global pandemic in itself was not the disease, nor the cure. For the vast majority of people, it became a painful healing process. One that confronted us with our fears, made us re-align our priorities, and lead us to real change. Life Gave Me Curves, 2021, is a piece which captures that feeling with an aesthetic analogy that uses an orthopedic corset; an uncomfortable, sometimes painful garment; a restricting device that, every time we see or feel it, it reminds us of everything we are in the process of healing.

Life Gave Me Curves, 2021, is an open invitation to reflect upon moments in time and the gadgets which helped us improve our health, even with all the pain they caused us. There is no clear-cut moment, or definite timeline marking a before and after, evoked by the “sweeping” floral imagery, inviting movement, transition, and the act of disappearing. The flowers, which appear as an aesthetic window into my most recent series, Back to Healing, 2021, people in transit are depicted with similar references. I strived to communicate a message of life, beauty, radiance, and presence. The corset is displayed as a flower vase which protects and gives structure to a bouquet of flowers, symbolizing a person who is protected and supported by the corset. 

“I’m happy because I no longer need you” and “I cannot or will not live without your protection.”