artist statement

this semester for my final i explored many different ideas but landed on the idea and material of fish. to me a fish is free yet trapped. wanting to become a fish acts as an act of transformation.utlimately the piece is about drowning in sadness with an irony that fish can breathe showing this self destruction of wanting to stay in the sadness. wanting to keep getting deeper and deeper into the sadness a familiar sadness afraid of the unknown yet also wanting escape. theres a theme of contradiction and a sense of confusion. the piece talks of swimming yet the fish is never in water. it is lifeless and bound to the ground.