Deborah Davis

Human beings need one another, bound by inescapable emotional threads that connect us infinitely to each other and intimately to our partners. One follows where the other goes, one thinks what the other feels, one remains while the other rests. We will go a great distance to stay bound. Love binds us, yet has no boundaries.

Yvette Dede

I chose the hand to represent the self for its dynamic physical qualities and for its universality that it does not have to reference a specific individual. The string-tied hand reacts to its constraints with varying degrees of movement. There is a psychological and physical tension between hand and string that suggests the engagement between external forces and internal impulses. The push and pull of will and bond are inextricably tied together. One is bound to the nature of dualities that help define the self.

Stranded. Digital photography and found object. 10 x 20 inches. 2011

As generation after generation dwell in suburbia, the idea that we are literally bound to the combustion engine—no matter how nostalgic or beautifully it is packaged—is a reality. Will we ever reach the future? Will we ever be released from the shackles of the petroleum industry? Or will we simply always be waiting on the wind?