UNBOUND I
pastel, colored pencil, graphite with Irish linen thread on paper
Image 10 x 11 | Framed 22 x 30

These are the first two pieces in a series of about 100 pieces where I examine the aspect of Longing. Longing without risk leads to a life of unrealized dreams and misplaced possibilities. How much you want something is proportionate to the risk you are willing to take to achieve it. Risk is so different for each of us. For one it may be hosting a dinner party, for another, a change in career. For another it is saying I love you, for someone else, it is saying I don’t. Risk is being All-In, saying Yes!. It is Stretching – emotionally, spiritually, physically, or intellectually. Longing is the essential road map that leads to Risk.

Symbolically, the book-like structure represents us as both, a collective and individual. It was created from one sheet of paper, torn, soaked, and peeled apart. The paper curls and folds naturally in reaction, much like how our own lives are shaped by events. It is purposely left blank, leaving the fibrous scars formed from the pulling apart. Beautiful. Rough. Scarred. Every WoMan. The thread– the binding – is unraveling, yielding to the force of the paper as it curls into itself.