Turning between intimate and reserved, the paintings depict ghosts—floating bodies lingering on the periphery of life and deprived of the comfort of existing corporeally within space. They are allowed protected spaces for their spirits to reside.
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As living people navigating a vivacious, humming world, we carry generations of unspoken traumas within our bodies, thrumming our souls and catching the whispers of ancestral pain on the tip of our tongues.
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The closely handsewn care taken in the crafting of the soft animals transfers to them an intimately human touch, existing within their bodies as an undercurrent of intimate comfort behind their vigilant gazes. Their silent gaze evokes an understanding that must not be expressed through language.
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Beyond vision and rationale, we remain with bated breath, suspended paradoxically in a transitory apprehension of an eternally veiled world, yearning for a way to break through the mist to the hidden world beyond.
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In silence, there is substance.
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