This is my thought wall. I was finding that flipping between ideas in my sketchbook, or having one idea worked out over multiple pages that weren't always consecutive, was time consuming and frustrating. Working on notecards has made it easier to make connections between individual works and to keep me focused so I'm not stuck in the brainstorming phase. 

  • Infestation
  • Internal vs External
  • Trying to shield others from your internal turmoil, as if you could infect them
  • otherness, abnormal, pathological


  • Internal feelings of loss made physical
  • Indicators of loss through mourning garb
  • Remembrance and memorial
  • materials considerations: painting, sculptural w/ stained glass elements
  • Physical affects of grief
  • Lungs: anxiety, stress (Chinese medicine posits grief is held in the lungs)
  • Knot magic: binding illness and evil spirits
  • An attempt to stop it but to also keep it private
  • Grief/death as industry: family once cared for the body, now strangers do
  • Objectification of the dead: transformation from person to object
  • Physical transformation of bodies after death
  • Griever's transformation/identity
  • Natural cycles
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