2025
Medium: Soft sculpture — felted wool, reclaimed thread and cord, watercolor pigment, spray paint, vintage frame
Dimensions: 33″ × 23″ × 1.5″
Price / Status: $1680 USD — Available for sale
Exhibition History: None
Themes: Trauma and disclosure, emotional containment, civility versus truth, visible repair, the risk of being seen.
The ornate Rococo-style frame and the wounded felt interior create a quiet but deliberate conflict between presentation and truth. The frame performs civility — the curated surface of social composure — while the inner textile exposes what that civility suppresses. The felted wool, porous and skin-like, resists polish. Its uneven edges and visible connective tissue betray the effort to stay intact.
The palette recalls old wounds rather than new — trauma absorbed into the self, familiar yet unhealed.
Cracks in the frame expose the strain between aesthetic containment and lived volatility — between the need to make pain palatable and the impossibility of doing so honestly. The frame performs the exhausting work of civility, holding together what continues to break beneath.
At 33 × 23 inches, the piece confronts the viewer on a human scale — not as spectacle, but as confession. Secondhand Account reflects the moment when truth must be told to someone who wasn’t there: the uneasy act of translating the unspeakable into something others can bear. It is a record of emotional self-editing, of the distance between what happened and what can be safely said.
