Bones Within Me (2016)

plastic stool, wooden sticks, colored pencils, pencils, adhesive glue

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Pencils are a basic and common tool used in our everyday life. Often used to jot something down, a quick gesture that helps us to trace important details. For an artist instead, it can be the start of a new idea, sketching and drawing out what we can envision from ideas to reality. These everyday sketches from a humble pencil, one that we take for granted, is used by the artist as a metaphor of fragility and brokenness in grappling with a chronic illness. Transforming a stool that often aids the artist in her daily life into a sculpture, the pencils and colored pencils act as the grounding structure that represents a crutch, portraying the artist's struggle in coping with rheumatoid arthritis.