Opening (2022)
Opening is an expressive artwork about connecting, and the ways we control access, socially and internally. The door is a powerful metaphor for me, especially after my recent brain surgery to remove a large tumor, in which the surgeon described the procedure as “cutting a door” in my skull. That door became a symbol of opening to healing, of accessing my inner world, and of the liminal transitional space between different parts of oneself, different phases of life, different possibilities and choices, and the connecting threshold between people. As I expanded and amplified this symbol, it became about systems of control and access, exclusion and inclusion. When we open doors, we invite possibility, learning, and imagination. The open door flaps its wings, door and unknown, and flies into an even deeper and expansive opening in the system itself.