Letters Never Sent
What are the limits of language? These pieces chronicle my struggle to understand and express an experience that feels inexpressible. The words here are real, but the handwriting is dense and unreadable. On one hand, this protects the messy process of articulating my own unknown content. On the other hand, struggling to read illegible words frustrates the desire to understand the work via language and thought. Here, language IS inadequate; these images have to be related to intuitively and emotionally.
Bursting into the world of heavy text are wild starlings: embodied and free. They bring a connected, living, relational energy to the pieces that releases them from the confines of linear, solitary thought. In the end, these pieces explore how expression and communication really occur. Language is so important, but the starlings offer something words alone cannot. As people, we are deeply related, like a murmuration. This connectedness goes so far beyond words. Between and within us is a living relational field. When this field is activated in and between us, words are no longer necessary to know who and what we are.
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