Behind the lacrimarium
Photography, poetry, sculpture, installation, video, and dance about the art and science of crying. Since 2020
What if when we feel sad and need to cry, what if we just did it, no matter where or when we were? With no shame?
What if we never had to cry alone? What if there was a place you could go when you are feeling your most disconsolate?
What if we were taught how to cry the same way we are taught to sing, laugh, and breathe deeply and meditatively?
Messages to the Subconscious
With poem excerpts by Marc Ngui
from instagram
Work in progress. Silvered linen! Hematite and glass. And print and iron on plastic.
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Mar 27
At the digital end of the studio today, a short visit to generate these printouts on iron-on transfers.
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#tears
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Mar 22
Crying eye sketches.
Frozen muddy water, 2023.
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Mar 11
Snow eye with blue spruce lashes. #welcomethestrange_r
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Mar 7
Fresh ice crystals growing across the surface of water from a small round piece of ice as the seed.
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Feb 21
Frozen black tea doing a fine job as a brown crying eye that empties to be a Lacrimarium public space for crying together.
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#uglycrying
#letscrytogether
#publicspaceforcrying
#mentalhealth
#socialhealth
#honesty
#iammysisterskeeper
#cryingforhealth
#cryingclub
#vitality
#grieving
#sculpture
#installstion
#tests
#nontoxicart
#zeroplasticart
#experimental
#test
#arttest
#sketches
Feb 21
Ice and acrylic paint eyeball.
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#everydayimcrying
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#inthestudio
Feb 17
Heat fused pigment on cotton and ice, 18 inches across
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Feb 17
