Materials: walnut, brass, acrylic paint
Dimensions: (h)42cm x (w)23cm x (d)10cm
Weight: 3kg kg
We are full of stuff we don't know we don't know. We are a mystery to ourselves except we don't know this either because we are so closely identified with all our inner shananigans.
Experiences are stored in our bodies in different ways - feelings in one spot, what we hear in another, smells and tastes in others and so on. Feelings are the closest to our conscious awareness.
So what? So, when anxiety begins to rise in us, this means we are about to learn something about ourselves we didn't previously know. First the feelings - a great sadness perhaps, maybe a deep fear - and it will eventually pull up anything else stored down there related to it: images of the moment, the noise of rain, a scent of perfume...
If we manage to stay with it all and feel it through, we realise what's at the bottom of it like a belief formed when we were younger, or a world view handed down to us by our parents. Things that shape how we behave in the world, and how maybe a current behaviour or situation doesn't match up with what we know now we value, and we change accordingly. And then there's room for the next unknown to surface when its ready.
€4,500