Empathy

Rather than turning away when I see suicidal self-checkmates, I am artistically experimenting with empathy to play with the motives, imaginations, tangled knots, suffering, and disappointment that make up the action.

We politely pretend people are complex and unique, but nature is efficient and endlessly recycles the same few themes, easily noticed and comprehensible, masked in obvious ways that are transparent to see through.

We waste a lot of time believing in the fable of individualism while ignoring the patterns of the whole.