wistful and BOLD

installation, handmade paper, 2022

wistful and BOLD is an installation of space paper!. Arranged in a grid, there are five sheets of paper with a phrase written in gold ink in the center surrounded by sixteen sheets of paper. The papers show a transition from a cloudy, murky sky with muted greys/blacks and few stars to papers where the sky/outer space clears up and galaxies and constellations and nebulas take form, and end with papers that show the deepest black and clearest stars.

The phrases are: 

DO YOU SEE ME? 
I’M TIRED OF BEING STRONG 
DOING ALRIGHT FOR THE TIME BEING 
HAFFI GIVE THANKS 
IT FEELS GOOD TO BE FREE 

As such, the phrases also follow a transition: from resigned, sad and broken down, to working through the process, and ending with the statement that “it feels good to be free”.