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United States
Installation, Wood on Wood
Size: 24 W x 18 H x 120 D in
Ships in a Crate
Fractured Ablation 1 (Large Outdoor Sculpture) is an abstract representation of my mind, the literal barriers, and obstacles that I have had to climb through/over to overcome the immense fear that disabled me from being able to leave my house for almost five years except when with my husband, to run, and or to go to work. As a child abuse, domestic abuse, severe trauma, and multiple rape survivor trying to recover from Severe Anxiety & Panic Attack Disorder with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, I needed to find a process that would further enable me to gather my strength during transition internally back into my own body and mind, as well as externally in public around people. This is why I chose Shou Sugi Ban, an ancient Japanese technique used to torch wood, that celebrates the earth, elements, our use of them, connection, and beauty in simplicity. The process is very cathartic. After cutting, shaping, and torching the wood I had refuse. I knew I wanted to use this refuse for Temporary Collective 2018 (shown in Image 3), create it as a way to join external space, with internal, and my work with the other powerful women in my group working with similar subject matter in different mediums. This structure is created with multiple 10 ft. long red cedar 4x4 beams and galvanized steel lag screws. At the base, this structure measures about 15 ft x 25 ft, and stands nearly 8 ft. tall. The include dimensions are for the deconstructed, crated structure.
Original Created:2017
Subjects:Abstract
Installation:Wood on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:24 W x 18 H x 120 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:Ships in a wooden crate for additional protection of heavy or oversized artworks. Crated works are subject to an $80 care and handling fee. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:United States.
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*Being an artist with a unique perspective means that I am able to facilitate all of my assets throughout my work. My assets have enabled me to connect and create across the many different states and countries I have lived in. I have been in love with sculpture, print, paint, mixed media, performance, and photography since I was in pre-school. I have always been driven by my physicality as an artist athlete, which has enabled me to grasp for courses that taught me how to work with all different mediums through my schooling and outside of school when specific advanced techniques were not offered. I believe education is integral to shape change that is a necessity to stay relevant within whatever medium I choose to work with and this love of education continues to be a driving force in my world. *From my childhood art studies, through to my Undergraduate Career at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor as an artist athlete, Platt College, San Diego, now during my Master Degree Studies in photography at Academy of Art University, San Fransisco (online), as well as Master of Fine Arts focused on sculpture, photography, mixed media, and paint at Texas Woman's University, Denton. I am further harnessing my creative drive and want to help others through education. This drive is being put into creating work that brings awareness (Art for Activism) to fellow child abuse, domestic abuse, severe trauma, and rape survivors trying to recover from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Severe Anxiety and Panic Attack Disorder; as I myself am currently doing. Art has an amazing ability to heal, empower, break down archaic negative societal stigmas, and give courage to all participants. Art can be used as a tool to take ones body and mind back. The necessity of art has been something I have drawn on my whole life, I was born with this drive to express myself via multiple mediums, now that I have finally recovered this connection after years of being broken I am finally achieving, and surpassing my goals. I am helping other survivors like myself, studying, educating, and spreading the importance of art as an imperative tool to express ones self.
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