Lauren Evans

Reoccurring themes include animal imagery as metaphors that depict our psychological make-up, childhood labeling, and control; and how society and science perpetuate the stigmas of psychological frailties and the isolation of how we are bound to such labels associated with suffering. The work examines the challenges and turmoil that everyone faces throughout life, using visual metaphors for awkwardness, uneasiness, instability and how we set up borders to keep ourselves safe or trapped.

Lauren Evans

Jennifer Ewing

The theme, “Bound”, reminds me that our spirits are intertwined with to our bodies from the time we are born. We must make the most of what we are given in our raw state. The boats represent us as corporeal beings made of skin and bones. I build my boats as bodies that are covered in a kind of skin. The twine and paper are materials that give me a chance to wrap the boats and arks, as a way to show how we are enclosed in ourselves. How we break out of that binding is the whole story of a life, lived fully, unbound and free.