The first images are sketches in thread meant to emphasize the organized chaos that anxiety creates and thrives upon. Unlike seeing these images over the internet, they live in book form so that the viewer must turn the page in order to see what lies beneath the easy to digest patterning. The thread drawings later became part of a book of thread drawings featured within a larger body of work for the 2019 Graduate Art Exhibition.

While working with grids, I was also drawn back to language and communication. The grid alphabet is overworked. the same letter lie over one another many times over. The repetition of organizing has created its own chaos and anxiety ensues.

The first images working with gelatin utilize flex-wax molds of my hands signing ASL letters to be cast. The disfiguration happens during the drying process of the gelatin, which can take weeks to complete. It is a project I hope to come back to as it communicates miscommunication.

In the next study with gelatin, I hoped to create membranes between wires. Since the study worked decently in small scale, I hope to upscale this process in the near future.

The bronze cast studies were meant to be maquettes towards a larger body of work. However, through my research and practice. this project took on a different approach to highlight anxiety in the body.

From these studies, stems the body of work entitled Anxiety Beats.