“The Gift”

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     {Papier Mache and Mixed Media} 

Lift the lid and look inside. See the gift.

In this piece I wanted to make something that represented a ‘gift’ but looking at the idea of the ‘gift of life’ we often talk about as humans. What do we mean by that?

Essentially we are boxes of skin, but we are breathing. Sometimes we paint our skin to make it look better on the outside. Then there’s this other thing we name the ‘inside’. All of our human insides are full of various levels of trauma or feelings, suffering and pain, patches and scars, a mixed bag of mosaics that represent the troughs and valleys we have navigated through this ‘life’. 

However complex and messy we have become, and however mosaiced, aren’t we still experiencing the gift of life? 

Discuss.