Sometimes we don’t know what’s missing in our lives, until we receive it. Likewise, when we lose something that we once had. We find ourselves trying to fill the void, like a donut hole that’s intentionally left empty, we too make do with a hole in the middle.
These past three years, art has filled me. And it’s led me to this amazing art residency at MassMOCA, where I’m surrounded by a cohort of talented artists.
Here, in North Adams I saw for the first time, the work of Joseph Grigley, a deaf artist.
I had no idea, that his work would turn my world upside down. That I would have such a deep response, and collapse into past feelings of isolation and loneliness, notes of deafness.
Like him, I have hearing loss. Like him, I cannot always communicate effectively in my world, where technology has replaced paper notes with texts and I’m grateful for them.
But the truth is, I momentarily went down the rabbit hole, and could not make work. Having my own studio brought me back quicker than I thought possible. I can honestly say, that had I not had a studio to process and work through my emotions, the results might’ve been very different. So thank you #Assets4Artists
In this space, at MassMOCA, I returned to myself, transformed and made the work, a triptych to tell my story of hearing loss, the last song that I heard in stereo…
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