Catherine McKnight

Catherine McKnight

Healing

2021

Hydrocal, gold paint, and gorilla glue

8” x 36” x 3”

 

Healing is about picking up the pieces when you are broken. One could be broken for many reasons whether that is from a relationship, a passing of a love one, etc. While picking up those pieces to try and get back to life one loses part of themselves, they are missing some pieces. In the beginning it’s hard and there’s a lot of healing that needs to happen. In Chinese culture when a ceramic piece gets a crack, they fill it with gold, the golden crack now becomes part of the piece and makes the piece more beautiful. My idea for this piece was to add golden paint to the broken and cracked parts of the hands. This is supposed to represent that even thought someone is going through this they are still beautiful and strong. I also chose to do a male hand because there is a lot of stigma around men and how they can’t show their emotions and how they should be tough. This piece is validating men and their emotions, it is okay for them to show emotion and to have/experience emotion.