SCREAM
This sculpture is the essence itself of my inner voice. The screaming mouth, isolated from other facial features and divorced from any narrative context, suggests existential agony but is also my creative power yearning to come forth and to command my body to execute its will despite the social mores.
If left unchecked, the voices in our heads will take charge of our lives. They scare us into believing that the outside world is dangerous, and that we need to obey their rules for living in order to survive and avoid pain. By following (or rigidly disobeying) these rules, we don’t allow ourselves to adapt our responses to experiences as they naturally unfold. Our behaviors and emotional responses become more a reflection of yesterday’s reality than what is happening today. And we never seem to escape our dysfunctional childhoods.
In the Kinetic experience of this sculpture, the face appears and disappears according to the angle of view of the audience in the same way as these voices appear and vanish inside my head.