TITLE: Decay

I often find that I am captivated by what constitutes human nature and where I fall into it. How I have no footing in the real world yet manage to experience it all at once. Why I am constantly burdened with my own mortality while still programmed to keep surviving. As all humans have before me, I have been placed in some sort of self-defining plight.

Throughout my work, I pursue the ideas of substance abuse, personality disorders, sexual assault, and self-harm ideation. Over the past few years, these concepts have planted themselves in my life and have stolen much of it away. People are complex creatures that are still very fragile as no one is exempt from anything, especially trauma.

Self-portraiture has recently struck me as being the most personal art I can make. I capture my own visions that get lost in space’s timeline by solidifying them into something tangible. Just as I think I have lost myself in my own deafening silence, I am brought back through my work.

AUTHOR: Maggie Middlebrook (United States)