The series to carry your broken heart is a multidisciplinary meditation on finding peace within tragedy, fear and loss. It is not completely the question of how we endure: but, how we find the grace to become pieced together again, to prevail at forgiving, others and ourselves.
This series is also a meditation on the commoditization of feeling, and by extension a meditation on what fits into the category of art and that of commodity. When there is a large national tragedy, the nation is told to go out and shop. This project is as much a comment on retail therapy and the fetishization of comodity, as it is a receptacle for those emotions we turn our heads to hide. In this way, the experiential nature of the objects becomes cathartic.
To carry your broken heart consists of heavy, anatomical hearts made of metal, broken and mended hearts made of cement and gypsum, and rubber semi-translucent hearts. These are housed in what looks to be a purse, or clutch or handbag of sorts. The design is articulated with a close fit so that bags themselves suggest what is inside.
