Anew

Each of us has shells to break through, parameters to look past, and wills to exercise. Arise and Stand. And then start Moving.

I stand amid a sea of bodies huddled with their own knees. We cover the world, shining like men o’war feeding off the same sea, trapped each of us in translucent isolation, unaware of our ability to move in the sun. I am not alone, here walking over the broken remnants of my psychological ancestors; on the horizons our silhouettes are ginger-stalking, throwing more of ourselves into our paths with each step of self-recognition recoil. So off to my brethren walking in the distance. So off to the sun.

Anew are nine life size sculptures constructed of paper mache and plaster bandage. The set was first constructed as a temporary meditation on existential awakening for INW’s Critical Massive in July 2009 and then installed as a guerilla art piece in Seattle’s Gasworks Park at the end of August. Gifted to Seattle and taken home by various people, many of the pieces still stand in gardens and homes across the city.