Frankie Cheatham
Cocoon
2019
Chicken wire, plaster, cloth
5' x 15' x 12'
Cocoon explores the repression and avoidance of memory. Hanging from a tree of life and memory, each memory hangs like a fruit, but has been turned from organic into unyielding and dead looking "stone". Plaster acts as a petrifying agent, obscuring memories in a rigid cocoon while simultaneously preserving them and suspending them in a fixed state, mimicking the inability to confront and move forward from avoided memories. As the memories remain petrified they infect even the pathway to them, freezing and obscuring the way to reach them, and implies that eventually the petrification may reach the tree itself if not addressed.
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