Guilt
Ella Zheng My Sustained Investigation explores feelings of guilt when indulging in pleasures or the process of experiencing what life throws at us. This body of work reflects the tumultuous period of time of 2020-2021 and the guilt I had kept within me. The amount of guilt and sadness that the period has brought me drives the creation process. This ends up with the initial drawings being more catered to my personal experience, but I am well aware that I am not alone in feeling the crushing weight that is such guilt. As a result I pull in imagery of all kinds, from animals to everyday objects in an attempt to create a bridge from the audience to my mind. The result ends up being in the middle of translatable and comfortably personal. In the end I don't mean to find a way to resolve these negative emotions but to find a way to identify them and in some way provide some catharsis. |
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