We exist to support systems that are not our own. Ideas, values, and responsibilities are bestowed upon us by an untouchable power. Inherently, we do our best to maintain them; not by choice, but only due to fear of exclusion and isolation. We strain our body and mind around systems that will not support us, even with the knowledge that we could lose our selves on the way. Trained to uphold these imposed beliefs, we don't even see how we are hurting ourselves and those around us.

To remove societal beliefs from our selves, we first must understand how we enforce them. Does our language enforce a gender binary? Do algorithms effect our views of others? Why strive for someone else's idea of perfection? Why is it wrong to be weird? Are there still new things in the world? Is the prescribed future set in stone? Can I still change? Look inward, so we can change outward.

Sprained Podium

We are forced to bear witness to the crimes of others. They treat the victims they’ve created as sacrifices only to uplift their own image. How are we cared for only after we are victims?

Display of Faith

When reaching your goals, pressure surrounds you and obstacles form in your way. These pressures form around you, but only because you rise to their challenge. Upon reaching the endpoint, you see how each obstacle is connected, with each problem becoming your own hidden treasure.
The figure climbs the chain binding the space together. Orbs, with gold wrapped at their tops, pin the character together, creating an internal force to hold them back. As they reach out of their bubble, they find gems ahead of them. Will this movement be what it take to reach their end goal? Or would the obstacles crush them before they even have the chance to make it?

Cloud Crush!

We all have our gifts. Our talents, passions, skills, and drives, that give us our purposes and desires in life. We keep our gifts and maintain energy to support it, but that energy is desired by overruling powers. The abilities we have are only valid to them if we use it to support them. Older powers have found what works for them, and refuse to let innovation come halt their path. Our gifts are taken from us, shamed, or hidden from the world. Predation on our minds come from the shame and isolation felt from using our talents for ourselves. 

We have our gifts, and through the use of them, we can truly become ourselves. What can we do with our gifts? Do our passions inherently threaten current and traditional structures of labor? Is it possible for societal beliefs to terminate someones passions? Do your powers exist to break you away from manipulative hierarchies? These gifts tend to threaten the status quo, but that is the superpower we have - to change the world.

Proto Predator

Part of "Squish" series.  
Within us are ideas we cherish. Some our own, some inherited. In combining with the world, we take parts of ourselves that may still need work. We interact with others with similar patterns. In identifying our issues, we can become better people.  
Under a system of pressure, this combination may lead to a worse outcome. With pressure, comes a resistance to change. When two people come together without a willingness to change, the bad habits and ideas come together to create a whole new entity from both people's behaviors. This manifestation of conflict will affect the worlds of all parties involved, at the expense of everyone in the vicinity.

Cherished Grudge

Throughout my life I have used my accomplishments to protect myself in doing what I wanted to. Every award I received was to justify a part of my existence; the freedom to see friends, explore the world, and understand myself. These achievements laid themselves as protection, where I used my mind and body to protect myself. Only I could see through my achievements, and only I could understand that these accomplishments were not for me. 
Carved body parts surround the head leaning outwards on the bottom right of the woodwork. Each piece of carved anatomy provides protection to the head, representing past actions to justify the head's position amongst the limbs and appendages. Jewelry and chains are delicately placed around the head, manifesting as physical rewards held by the actions of the past. The head peers through these awards, wondering how long they'll be needed until peace can be found without them.
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Vogue

In our garden, lies everything we let grow. While we are able to blossom in there, weeds may also sprout, unless checked otherwise. On managing the garden, you pull these harmful invaders from your land. Products from a bad environment are now in your hands. Your garden is free from weeds of the past, but now you must grow again, ready to create new produce in your life.

The Gardener #9/10

RDA: Old Roots

In an act of greed, we reduce a person to be only how we see them. We take care of a person. Cherishing them, sustaining them, and supporting them as we see them become who we want them to be. Until they want freedom. To escape to their autonomy, they escape from our grasp. We keep them contained. Our greed is in our selfishness in letting them exist. They can only exist within our bounds; anything more will be suppressed. We obsess in who we want them to be, and celebrate our power of keeping them in a vessel too small.

Lovely Cup

.Clay

Standing on two sides of something where both have value, we can’t decide how to best move forward, while time burns away. We see opportunities present itself, and we know how to pursue it. The issue is, we know of several ways to do it, remaining stuck in deciding how to proceed. While we wait, we lose our chance to move forward as these opportunities dissipate, as we stare down the next step in our lives. 
Using woodburning to represent our present and carving to represent our past, the woodburning is surrounded by gold. This gold is representing time, slowly closing in on us even though we rely on its infinite existence. Gold chains connect the two parts of the body, where our energy flows from one choice to the other, with a gem hanging in the center, as that is the opportunity we try to reach. Usually, the opportunity is already in our hands, but indecision can make it hard to reach. 

Dislocation

From the Woods V2

Pulled away from my home for education, I lost many aspects of my life. I was networked, socialized easily, and felt like I was at the top of my world. After moving to a completely new place, I fell. I found my peace in my art, yet lost so much that occupied my mind. I found my rest and my solace, but at costs I could have never expected. It has been difficult finding people I want to spend time with, and harder to gather energy to search for them. In a full 180, I have turned my solitude into time to regather myself into art. I will build my forest.

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