Rotting : A growing sculpture of depression
Rotting is a sculpture made of a figure spending life breaking down in bed made of materials taken from the room that they spent so long in. The sculpted figure grows plants over months out of the “detritus” produced from their time reflecting. Along with this piece comes a reflection written by the figure toward the end of their time “rotting in bed.”
“Rotting”. A word with connotations of decay and destruction; an accptance that an end will comsume us. It is a state I find myself in more frequently than I’d like to admit. Lying in wait for an end that doesn’t come as promised, instead I continue on to feel and process life.
In this state I have wallowed, numbed, refleced, and yearned. All proof mof my existance contrary to the word itself. “Rotting”. Despite my best lack of effort I have not decayed but have grown. No time was spent breaking down my personality that did not produce change.
New meaning has been brought to the word. “Rotting”. A beauty in the failure of decay and the persistance of growth in life. Developing a changing, healing human.
I will live one day. For now I wish to rot.
Kodak Porta 400 35mm using a Miranda Sensorex (1966)
Reading, United Kingdom
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